On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:07:07 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> It's nice people have invented so many ways to spell the builting "map" > ;) > >>>> ",".join(map(str,[1,2,3])) > '1,2,3' The oldest solution, and if not the fastest, at least neck-and-neck with the list comprehension. >>> timeit.Timer("', '.join(map(str, [1,2,3]))", "").repeat() [5.0320308208465576, 4.1513419151306152, 4.0970909595489502] For those who missed my earlier post: list comp, best of three for one million iterations: 4.53 seconds generator expression: 10.52 seconds itertools.imap: 8.52 seconds Your mileage may vary. I think it is a crying shame that Guido's prejudice against functional programming seems to have increased over the years, instead of decreased. Iterators are wonderful tools, but professional tradesmen use more than one sort of hammer. (There are claw hammers and ball peen hammers and tack hammers and wooden mallets and...) "One obvious way to do it" should not mean "force everyone to use a tack hammer to drive in nails, because it's the only hammer in the tool box". It should mean "it's obvious, use the tack hammer to drive in tacks and the claw hammer for carpentry and the wooden mallet for beating out dints in sheet metal and..." -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list