Interesting list() un-optimization
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Mar 7 15:34:33 EST 2013
On 3/7/2013 11:20 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:
> But iterators have a length hint method that are used for some
> optimizations and preallocations, too.
This is easy when the base iterable has a length method, as do range
objects.
>>>> i = iter(range(10))
>>>> i.__length_hint__()
> 10
And the length_hint can (should be) decremented with each next call.
>>> next(i); next(i)
0
1
>>> i.__length_hint__()
8
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Terry Jan Reedy
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