Andrey Tatarinov wrote:
anyway list comprehensions are just syntaxic sugar for
>>> for var in list:
>>> smth = ...
>>> res.append(smth)
(is that correct?)
so there will be no speed gain, while map etc. are C-implemented
It depends.
Try
def square(x):
return x*x
map(square, range(1000))
versus
[x*x for x in range(1000)]
Hint: function calls are expensive.
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