On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 12:48:28 PM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > Up until today, I have always tested for an empty string using not > s.strip(). But Doh, this is an unnecessary stress on the GC. > `s.isspace()` much faster and more pythonic. >
As another aspect of this pattern, instead of testing, if ''.join(lines): the new code now tests: if all([z.isspace() for z in lines]): This is much faster (it should run close to C speed) and generates *no* additional strings for the GC to recycle. EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.