On Sep 3, 11:55 pm, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sean DiZazzo <half.ital...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What are you using to test the scripts? I could be completely wrong, > > but I find it hard to believe that the second version is much (if any) > > faster than the first. Then again, I don't know much about the > > internals... > > Sorry, Sean, unfortunately you are wrong, although it's understandable > that you've missed this. > > The lookup of locally scoped references is a lot faster than that of > global ones, primarily due to the lookup order: it first checks the > local scope and then out through surrounding scopes _before_ the > global scope. > > So yes, depending on the nature of your code, its quite conceivable to > find distinct performance differences between code using the __main__ > idiom and code without.
Interesting. I guess at some point I should try to understand what is going on under the covers. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
