Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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:: ...
Heh, good point. Might be worth putting a special hack in defaultdict to recognize the common case of defaultdict(int). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list