Benjamin Peterson wrote: > Yes, but in either of these cases is there an excellent performance > improvement to be gained and is it worth the complexity of your > optimization? I think not.
Me, too. I already tried to explain Steve that I have used list.pop(0) in very few cases during my seven years as a professional Python developer. Since I knew that popping from the beginning of a list is slower than popping from the end or just leaving the list unmodified I found ways to alter my algorithms. The few cases left were either not performance critical or used dequeue instead. I vote -0.5 on the change unless Guido, Tim or Raymond think that the size and complication impact is worth the hassle. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
