idiom for list looping

[Xavier Ho]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:52 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> Slightly shorter:
>
> print '\n'.join("%s - %s" % p for p in enumerate(nomi))
>
> :-)
>
That's cool. Does that make the "list" a tuple? (not that it matters, I'm
just curious!)

I just tested for a list of 1000 elements (number in letters from 1 to 1000
code I wrote for doing project euler problem 17), and the join method is 0.1
seconds faster than the for loop! Woo!? ;p
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