On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 6/21/2011 3:48 PM, John Salerno wrote: > >> Absolutely not! Each problem has been designed according to a "one- >> minute rule", which means that although it may take several hours to >> design a successful algorithm with more difficult problems, an >> efficient implementation will allow a solution to be obtained on a >> modestly powered computer in less than one minute." > > That statement is for C, not Python. Python is efficient with human time, > but not machine time. If something really takes a minute in C, allow > yourself at least 10 minutes or even more with plain CPython. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy
Python is the second most popular language on Project Euler, at 14358 users compared to 15897 who use C/C++. I'm pretty sure they don't assume you use C. Although Python's longs do make some of the early problems really really easy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
