So.....I'm wondering if there is any interest in an apply() built-in
function that would work like map() does in 2.x (calls the function
with each value returned by the iterator) but return nothing. Maybe
"apply" isn't the best name; it's just the first one that occurred to
me.
Or is this just silly and should I forget about it?
IMHO - yes. Looking up names is what python does all the time, trying to
microoptimize that away is silly. It is only justfied if you have
extremely timing-critical code.
And then, all you need to do is to say
def whatever():
_function = function
for value in values:
_function(value)
which will reduce lookup-time, as _function is found in locals() rather
than globals().
And any function that does something worthy will dwarf the second
namespace-lookup I'd say.
Diez
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
