Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin wrote:
>
>> "n00m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> h = collections.defaultdict(itertools.repeat(0).next)
>> Something wrong with
>> h = collections.defaultdict(int)
>> ?????
>
> According to a post by Raymond Hettinger it's faster to use that iterator
> instead of `int`.
Yep. It's because the .next() method takes no arguments, while int()
takes varargs because you can do::
int('2')
int('2', 8)
Calling a no-args function is substantially faster than calling a
varargs function.
STeVe
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