On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:40:56 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Dart wrote: > > Sigh, this reminds me of a discussion I had at my work once... It seems > > to write optimal Python code one must understand various probabilites of > > your data, and code according to the likely scenario. > > And this is different from optimizing in *any* other language > in what way?
In other languages, by the time you get the bloody thing working it's time to ship, and you don't have to bother worrying about making it optimal. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list