On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> Is the actual generation of permutations your problem? You mentioned >> that you're using itertools, so I would expect that you're simply >> iterating over that; I hope you're not immediately trying to construct >> a list of them all, because that would cost the memory that Mark's >> response talks about. Have you actually profiled your code and found >> that generating permutations is the bottleneck, or did you just guess? >> Because even experienced programmers - even extremely experienced >> Python programmers - are usually wrong when they guess about the >> slowest part of a program. The only way to know is to measure. >> >> ChrisA >> > > s/Mark/Wolfgang/ ?
Oops, yes, my bad. I read the rest of the thread, then went back up and replied to the most appropriate post for what I wanted to say, and then named the wrong person out of the two following posters. My apologies, Mark and Wolfgang! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list