On Nov 17, 2:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > . > .>To the OP, I think rather than cluttering my code, > I'd just > >create a loop > > > for i in [x1,x2,x3,x4,...x1024]: > > a[i] = False > > . > . > . > I much prefer this, too. > > I've been trying to decide if there's any sober reason to advocate > the one-liner > > map(lambda i: a.__setitem__(i, False), [x1, x2, x3, ..., x1024]) > > My answer: no.
well, the OP was "...faster?" not "best, cleanest, pythonic..." so the reason would be speed. (looks faster, don't know for sure) (and yeah, looks ugly. but we need the speed...) Carl K -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
