Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The lookup table is a constant. If made a tuple, it will be compiled as > a constant (as least in 2.6, maybe 2.5).
Force of habit. I tend to work on lists by indexing and/or iterating, and on tuples by destructuring, and choose types based on the kinds of things I'll be doing. But I did intentionally ensure that the tables were constant so that readers could apply the obvious optimization if they wanted. (Also, unnecessarily computing str(i) seemed bad.) > In any case, it could (and to me should) be lifted out of the string > comp. For performance, yes. But doing a modexp is going to kill performance anyway, so I decided to save screen lines. After all, applying even fairly basic number theory to a problem like this isn't really what one might call a readable solution. ;-) -- [mdw] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
