"George Sakkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As clunky as it seems, I don't think you can beat it in terms of > brevity; if you care about memory efficiency though, here's what I use: > > def length(iterable): > try: return len(iterable) > except: > i = 0 > for x in iterable: i += 1 > return i
Alex's example amounted to something like that, for the generator case. Notice that the argument to sum() was a generator comprehension. The sum function then iterated through it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
