Andrey Tatarinov wrote:
It promotes the sensible realization that when optimization is the goal code may well tend to get ugly, sometimes uglier than necessary. Note that the first version is completely straightforward and comprehensible.Hi.
How does GvR suggestions on removing map(), reduce(), filter() correlate with the following that he wrote himself (afaik):
http://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str.html
?
And note that the summary in the conclusiogn BEGINS with "Rule number one: only optimize when there is a proven speed bottleneck", which seems to adequately imply that straightforward code is to be preferred unless speed requirements override that.
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