Re: Quick shallow-copy idiom
On Sep 19, 10:48 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > y = type(x)(x) Nice trick, but is it better than the explicit: y = copy.copy(x) (I think not, because copy.copy works for example, on classes which take more than one argument to their constructor). -- Paul Hankin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Why is this loop heavy code so slow in Python? Possible Project Euler spoilers
On Sep 2, 12:51 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... right-angled triangle puzzle solver > > max = 0 > maxIndex = 0 > index = 0 > for solution in solutions: > if solution > max: > max = solution > maxIndex = index > index += 1 > > print maxIndex Not that it solves your slowness problem, or has anything to do with the question you asked :), but you can replace this last segment of your code with: print solutions.index(max(solutions)) -- Paul Hankin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
