En Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:30:27 -0300, Hyunchul Kim <hyunchul.mail...@gmail.com> escribió:
I want to improve speed of following simple function. Any suggestion? ********** def triple(inputlist): results = [] for x in inputlist: results.extend([x,x,x]) return results **********
These are my best attempts: def triple3(inputlist): results = [] append = results.append for x in inputlist: append(x); append(x); append(x) return results def triple4(inputlist, _three=xrange(3)): return [x for x in inputlist for _ in _three] For a 400-items list, triple3 is 40% faster and triple4 25% faster than yours. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list