On 10/24/2019 04:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The current "obvious" solution is tedious, annoying, verbose (about a
third longer than it need be) and error-prone.^1
--> print("So should we have syntax for sentence literals"
... "so we don't forget spaces, too?")
^1 I'm gratified to see that nobody yet has noticed the error in my
earlier example involving the strings 'zero' through 'thirty', which
supports my point that the status quo is sub-optimal.
You said it was actual code, so I didn't pay close attention. Does this mean
you have now fixed an error in your code? Your welcome. ;-)
^2 On my computer the split idiom is about forty percent slower:
$ ./python -m timeit "['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h']"
200000 loops, best of 5: 1.44 usec per loop
$ ./python -m timeit "'a b c d e f g h'.split()"
100000 loops, best of 5: 2.05 usec per loop
so it's not a trivial slowdown, even if this is unlikely to be a
bottleneck in many programs.
I hope you're not declaring that a 0.6 usec slowdown on a single import is
worth optimizing.
--
~Ethan~
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