Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
+1 QOTW. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list