On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:44:14 -0700, alex23 wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> In other words, about 20% of the time he measures is the time taken to >> print junk to the screen. > > Which makes his claim that "all the console outputs have been removed so > that the benchmarking activity is not interfered with by the IO > overheads" somewhat confusing...he didn't notice the output? Wrote it > off as a weird Python side-effect?
Wait... I've just remembered, and a quick test confirms... Python only prints bare objects if you are running in a interactive shell. Otherwise output of bare objects is suppressed unless you explicitly call print. Okay, I guess he is forgiven. False alarm, my bad. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
