On Jan 6, 9:03 pm, wiso <gtu2...@alice.it> wrote: > I'm optimizing the inner most loop of my script. I need to convert month > name to month number. I'm using python 2.6 on linux x64. > > month_dict = {"Jan":1,"Feb":2,"Mar":3,"Apr":4, "May":5, "Jun":6, > "Jul":7,"Aug":8,"Sep":9,"Oct":10,"Nov":11,"Dec":12} > > def to_dict(name): > return month_dict[name]
Try replacing the to_dict function with: to_dict = month_dict.get That removes one extra function call per lookup. On my computer, this reduces the time for your test from 0.26 to 0.09. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list