merge list of tuples with list
Daniel Wagner
daniel.wagner.ml at googlemail.com
Wed Oct 20 22:07:21 EDT 2010
> [b.pop(0)]
>
> This has to lookup the global b, resize it, create a new list,
> concatenate it with the list x (which creates a new list, not an in-place
> concatenation) and return that. The amount of work is non-trivial, and I
> don't think that 3us is unreasonable.
>
I forgot to take account for the resizing of the list b. Now it makes sense. Thanks!
> Personally, the approach I'd take is:
>
> a = [[1,2,3], [4,5,6]]
> b = [7,8]
> [x+[y] for x,y in zip(a,b)]
>
>
> Speedwise:
>
> $ python -m timeit -s 'a=[[1,2,3], [4,5,6]]; b=[7,8]' '[x+[y] for x,y in
> zip(a,b)]'
> 100000 loops, best of 3: 2.43 usec per loop
>
>
> If anyone can do better than that (modulo hardware differences), I'd be
> surprised.
>
Yeah, this seems to be a nice solution.
Greetings,
Daniel
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