On May 8, 11:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > alf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > two ways of achieving the same effect > > > l+=[n] > > > or > > > l.append(n) > > > so which is more pythonic/faster? > > .append - easy to measure, too: > > brain:~ alex$ python -mtimeit 'L=range(3); n=23' 'x=L[:]; x.append(n)' > 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.31 usec per loop > > brain:~ alex$ python -mtimeit 'L=range(3); n=23' 'x=L[:]; x+=[n]' > 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.52 usec per loop > > Alex
Why is it necessary to copy L? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
