On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > Don't use sorted(..., reverse=True). Instead reverse the list in place > > by using reverse slicing of l[-1::-1], which is about 1.5 times faster. > > Why are you using [-1::-1] for reversing? Isn't [::-1] the python > idiom for reversing a list? I am used to [-1::-1] and "Explicit is better than implicit". [::-1] gives (at least to me) the impression that it is equal to [0::-1] which it is not. > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- -Anand
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