On 2015-02-01, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> The one-liner might not be better code, but it must be better speed wise >> precisely because it's on one line, right? :) > > Well of course it is. Python code speed is always measured in lines > per minute. That's why you should eliminate blank lines from your > code.
No, you've got that backwards. You want _more_ blank lines. A blank line takes zero time to run, but it still counts as a line in your lines/second stats. A loop containing 1 line of code will execute in the same abount of time as that loop with 1 line of code and 99 blanks lines. The latter loop is running at 100 times as many lines/second as the former. That's _got_ to be better. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
