Interesting list() un-optimization
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Fri Mar 8 13:45:02 EST 2013
In article <513a26fa$0$30001$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:20:11 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
>
> > I stumbled upon an interesting bit of trivia concerning lists and list
> > comprehensions today.
> >
> > We use mongoengine as a database model layer. A mongoengine query
> > returns an iterable object called a QuerySet. The "obvious" way to
> > create a list of the query results would be:
> >
> > my_objects = list(my_query_set)
> >
> > and, indeed, that works. But, then I found this code:
> >
> > my_objects = [obj for obj in my_query_set]
> >
> > which seemed a bit silly. I called over the guy who wrote it and asked
> > him why he didn't just write it using list(). I was astounded when it
> > turned out there's a good reason!
>
> And why was that not documented in the code?
>
> I hope you took this fellow out and gave him a damned good thrashing!
Nah. I'm a pacifist. Besides, he's my boss :-)
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