George Sakkis wrote: > > How about using the right way of comparing with None ? > > x = None > t = time.time() > for i in range(1000000): > if x is None: > pass > print 'is None:',time.time()-t > > I get: > > None: 0.549999952316 > String: 0.498000144958 > is None: 0.450000047684
Yep, that occurred to me after I posted. :-) >>Anyway, time to call it a night so tomorrow I don't make anymore silly >>mistakes on comp.lang.python. :) > > > That would be a great idea ;-) An even greater idea would be to give up > on this "None should mean undefined" babble; it looks like a solution > looking for a problem and it raises more complications than it actually > solves (assuming it does actually solve anything, which is not quite > obvious). Already gave up on it as a serious idea quite a while ago and said so in several posts. From two days ago... in this same thread ... I said. >>Yes, I agree using None as an alternative to delete currently is >>unacceptable. Cheers, Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list