2011/8/22 Andreas Löscher <andreas.loesc...@s2005.tu-chemnitz.de>: > But every improvement on your algorithm will easily result in a > significant shorter execution time than replaceing a+=1 with a=a+1 will > ever do. :-) >
Agreed. If Python needed a faster alternative to "a=a+1", then I would recommend an "a.inc()" call or something; some way to avoid looking up the value of 1. (An equivalent to C's ++a operation, if you like.) But I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any situation where improving the speed of incrementing will be significant, that wouldn't be better served by algorithmic improvements (even just using "for a in range()") or dropping to C. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
