On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > That is *terrible* advice. But if you insist on following it, you can > optimize *any* Python program to this: > > # === start code === > pass # this line is optional > # === end code === > > > There you go. The most heavily optimized, fastest Python program in > existence. Sure, it has a few bugs, but boy is it fast!!!
Not many bugs though! I ran it in my Python 5.2.7 for GNU/Windows 256-bit (err, yeah, I borrowed Guido's time machine but had the silly thing in reverse... oops) and it worked perfectly, except that indentation has moved from "significant" to "mandatory". When I added the necessary 5 space indent at the beginning, it correctly created world peace, ensured that Australia won the next Test Match, and then printed "Hello, world!\n" to stdout. Unfortunately, a bug in your "end code" comment meant that the peace it created was by wiping out all life, but that's pretty minor in the scheme of things. Optimization really is that important, folks! ChrisA may need to schedule surgical detongueing of his cheek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
