Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually there is a big speed hit. Until such time that Python has a fast > identity function, and lambda x:x isn't it, your version is about three > times slower than Bearophile's.
Interesting. Fixing that speed hit probably needs compiler attention. > Much to my surprise, the fastest solution I've tried appears to be a pure > Python version not even using max() at all. Could you try the l.index version? That avoids creating all those intermediate tuples. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
