On 29 September 2012 20:05, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > My understanding is that Python 3.3 has regressed the performance of ''. > > Surely the Python devs can speed the performance back up and, just for > us, > > use less memory at the same time? > > Yes, but to do that we'd have to make Python more Australia-focused > instead of US-centric. As of Python 3.4, the empty string will be > lazily evaluated and be delimited by redback spiders instead of > quotes. That will give a 25% speed and 50% memory usage improvement, > but you'll need to be careful you don't get bitten >
Look - the worst that will happen is nausea and painful swelling and maybe death if you're a very young child. Personally I voted for the Fierce Snake[1][2] as the delimiter, but it was voted down as "not Pythonic" enough. I'm sure they were using that as a euphamism for "Python*ish*" though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Taipan [2] It's is so pretty: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Fierce_Snake-Oxyuranus_microlepidotus.jpg Tim Delaney
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