On Sep 3, 11:14 am, process <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is this faster btw?
Time it and see. > I guess big doesn't help, it's only retrieved once > anyway? Correct. > But is rows retrieved in every loop? Of course. Read your own code! The point is that retrieving the list referenced by "rows" is much faster than creating it needlessly each time. > the python interpreter > aint too smart? It's smarter than some. The trade-off for having a very dynamic language is that some compile-time optimisations are more difficult. If you are interested in work (being)? done in this area, look at psyco and PyPy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
