On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: > 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.
Why are you comparing in both directions, though? cmp() is more equivalent to this: seq1 == seq2 seq1 < seq2 You only need ONE comparison, and the other is presumed to be its opposite. When, in the Python 3 version, would you need to compare twice? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
