On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:44:21 -0800, eric wrote: > I like to believe that the less the 'debug pointer' stands in the python > code, the fastest the code is (or is potentially)
What's a debug pointer? Pre-mature optimization is the root of evil in programming. Unless you have actually *measured* the speed of the code, how do you know you aren't making it slower instead of faster? Experience with other languages often is misleading when programming with Python. If you are used to programming in C, for example, then you will tend to program one way because comparisons are fast and moving records is slow. But in Python, comparisons can be slow and moving records is fast, so the C programmer's intuitions about "fast code" are often pessimations instead of optimizations. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
