As a reply to rusi's comment: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a7689b158fdca29e#
>From string creation to the itertools usage. A medley. Some timings. Important: The real/absolute values of these experiments are not important. I do not care and I'm not complaining at all. These values are expected, I expected such values and they are only confirming (*FOR ME*) my understanding of the coding of the characters (and Unicode). #~ py323 py330 #~ test 1: 0.015357737412819 0.019290216142579 #~ test 2: 0.015698801667198 0.020386269052436 #~ test 3: 0.015613338684288 0.018769561472500 #~ test 4: 0.023235297708529 0.032253414679390 #~ test 5: 0.023327062109534 0.029621391108935 #~ test 6: 1.119958127076760 1.095467665651482 #~ test 7: 0.420158472788311 0.565518010043673 #~ test 8: 0.649444234615974 1.061556978013171 #~ test 9: 0.712335144072079 1.211614222458175 #~ test 10: 0.704622996001357 1.160909074081441 #~ test 11: 0.614674584923621 1.053985430333688 #~ test 12: 0.660336235792764 1.059443246081010 #~ test 13: 4.821435927771570 5.795325214218677 #~ test 14: 0.494012668213403 0.729330462512273 #~ test 15: 0.504894429585788 0.879966255906103 #~ test 16: 0.693093370081103 1.132884304782264 #~ test 17: 0.749076743789461 3.013804437852462 #~ test 18: 7.467055989281286 13.387841650089342 #~ test 19: 7.581776062566778 13.593412812594643 #~ test 20: 9.477877493343140 15.235388291413805 #~ test 21: 0.022614608026196 0.020984116094176 #~ test 22: 6.685022041178975 12.687538276191944 #~ test 23: 6.946794763994170 12.986701250949636 #~ test 24: 0.097796827314760 0.156285014715777 #~ test 25: 0.024915807146677 0.034190706904894 #~ test 26: 0.024996544066013 0.032191582014335 #~ test 27: 0.000693943667684 0.001315421027272 #~ test 28: 0.000679765476967 0.001305968900141 #~ test 29: 0.001614344548152 0.025543979763000 #~ test 30: 0.000204008410812 0.000286714523313 #~ test 31: 0.000213460537964 0.000301286552656 #~ test 32: 0.000204008410819 0.000291440586878 #~ test 33: 0.249692904327539 0.497374474766957 #~ test 34: 0.248750448483740 0.513947598194790 #~ test 35: 0.099810130396032 0.249129715085319 jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
