Devan L wrote: > But by using the builtin reduce, you need to specify a function, which > probably slows it down more than any speed-up from the loop in C.
Not if the function is from an extension module. For some applications, this can be quite common. Of course, in a Python 3000 world, nothing stops anyone from using their own extension module implementing map, filter, and reduce if they really want to. TSBOOOWTDI in the language/stdlib, but it shouldn't stop anyone from using other ways to do it that aren't in the stdlib if the tradeoffs are right for them. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
