On Nov 16, 2:41 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Hyunchul Kim
>
> <hyunchul.mail...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, all.
>
> > I want to improve speed of following simple function.
> > Any suggestion?
>
> > **********
> > def triple(inputlist):
> > results = []
> > for x in inputlist:
> > results.extend([x,x,x])
> > return results
Here's an itertools variant that is somewhat speedy when the inputlist
is long:
from itertools import *
def triple3(inputlist, list=list,
chain_from_iterable=chain.from_iterable, izip=izip):
return list(chain_from_iterable(izip(inputlist, inputlist,
inputlist)))
Raymond
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