"Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: >> There is another secondary advantage: the code inside a function runs >> faster (something related is true for C programs too). Usually this >> isn't important, but for certain programs they can go 20%+ faster. > > I totally fail to see why that should be the case - for python as well as > for C. > > So - can you explain that a bit more, or provide resources to read up on it?
Python stores local variables in an indexed array, but globals in a dictionary. Looking things up by index is faster than looking them up by name. Not sure what the C thing is; C doesn't really support putting *code* outside functions. Maybe he was thinking about static vs. auto variables ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
