"hanz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But wait if I do that, people will tell me how bad that it is, > > because it will keep a reference to the value which will prevent > > the garbage collector from harvesting this memory. > > Nobody will tell you that it's bad. Python was never about super > performance, but about readability. Besides, using such temporaries > won't consume much memory (relatively).
That completely depends on the objects in question. Compare temp = all_posters[:] temp.sort() top_five_posters = temp[-5:] to: top_five_posters = all_posters.sorted()[-5:] which became possible only when .sorted() was added to Python 2.4. This is another reason it would be nice to be able to create very temporary scopes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
