Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be>: > Well having a list of 1000 Sequence like object. Each sequence > containing between 1 and 100 numbers. Comparing each sequence > to each other a 100 times. I get the following results. > > Doing it as follows: > seq1 < seq2 > seq2 < seq1 > > takes about 110 seconds. > > Doing it like this: > delta = cmp(seq1, seq2) > delta < 0 > delta > 0 > > takes about 50 seconds.
Looks like a completely artificial scenario. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
