On 2007-10-30, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 30, 11:25 am, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-10-30, Eduardo O. Padoan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > This is a FAQ: >> >http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-does-python-use-methods-for-some-function... >> >> Holy Airy Persiflage Batman! >> >> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] >> on >> win32 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> >> import timeit >> >>> timeit.Timer('len(seq)', 'seq = range(100)').timeit() >> 0.20332271187463391 >> >>> timeit.Timer('seq.__len__()', 'seq = range(100)').timeit() >> >> 0.48545737364457864 > > Common mistake; try this instead: > > timeit.Timer('seqlen()', > 'seq = range(100); seqlen=seq.__len__').timeit()
Why would I want to do that? -- Neil Cerutti These people haven't seen the last of my face. If I go down, I'm going down standing up. --Chuck Person -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
