Hi Justin, I'm not sure about the other stuff, but you should do "is None" instead of "== None" since your times are so low.
sage: a = 2 sage: timeit("a == None") 625 loops, best of 3: 420 µs per loop sage: timeit("a is None") 625 loops, best of 3: 143 ns per loop --Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---