On 13/02/2014 18:37, forman.si...@gmail.com wrote:
I ran across this and I thought there must be a better way of doing it, but
then after further consideration I wasn't so sure.
if key[:1] + key[-1:] == '<>': ...
Some possibilities that occurred to me:
if key.startswith('<') and key.endswith('>'): ...
and:
if (key[:1], key[-1:]) == ('<', '>'): ...
I haven't run these through a profiler yet, but it seems like the original
might be the fastest after all?
All I can say is that if you're worried about the speed of a single line
of code like the above then you've got problems. Having said that, I
suspect that using an index to extract a single character has to be
faster than using a slice, but I haven't run these through a profiler yet :)
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