> so fastest overall you may experience speed-ups by using
from itertools import izip and just use izip() instead to avoid the module namespace lookup. The same applies for the list.append() methods. If you're appending some million times a_list = [] a_list_append = a_list.append a_list_append(value) will be faster than a_list.append(value) but not much. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
