John Machin wrote: > 1. Think about it. The first case will make a new list and copy "size" > *objects. When the assignment happens, the old list has its reference > count decremented. Not very memory-friendly. The second case merely > truncates the existing list in situ. Bit hard to imagine how the first > case could ever be faster than the second case. You might like to read > the source code. The file that you are looking for is listobject.c.
That's what I thought. I wasn't sure exactly what del actually does. > 2. Measure it. Tell me how and I will; I'm not nearly that much of a geek unfortunately. > 3. Unless you are deliberately parodying [EMAIL PROTECTED], don't use > "L".lower() as a variable name. Don't understand what you mean by this, but I didn't actually use 'l' as a variable name; that was just an example. > 4. Try reading this list / newsgroup more often I follow too many newsgroups as it is, when I've got plenty of other stuff to do. > -- (a) this topic (or a > closely related one) was covered within the last week or so (b) you > might notice abuse like (3) above being hurled at others and avoid > copping your share. > HTH, > John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
