invoke method on many instances

[Alan G Isaac]

>>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:19:50 +0000, Alan G Isaac wrote:
>>>> def apply2(itr, methodname, *args, **kwargs):
>>>>     f = operator.methodcaller(methodname, *args, **kwargs)
>>>>     for item in itr:
>>>>         f(item)


>> On 7/17/2009 3:45 AM Steven D'Aprano apparently wrote:
>>> for obj in objects:
>>>     getattr(obj, methodname)(*args, **kwargs)


> En Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:31:46 -0300, Alan G Isaac:
>> Are there any obvious considerations in choosing 
>> between those two? 


On 7/20/2009 3:29 AM Gabriel Genellina apparently wrote:
> The operator.methodcaller version is faster in my tests for large 
> collections, but slightly slower when you have very few elements. 


So it seems.  Is this easily explained?

Thanks,
Alan Isaac