> def lowest(s1,s2): > s = "" > for c1,c2 in [x for x in zip(s1,s2)]: > s += lowerChar(c1,c2) > return s > > but it's hardly any more elegant than using a loop counter, and I'm > guessing it's performance is a lot worse - I assume that the zip > operation is extra work? > > Iain
Always look in itertools for stuff like this: http://docs.python.org/lib/itertools-functions.html#l2h-1392 for c1, c2 in itertools.izip(s1, s2): ... I haven't profiled it, but it makes sense that this would be fast. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
