On Jul 1, 2007, at 7:13 PM, elis aeris wrote:
might just end my quest for
optimized python source code.
ugh,
what does it mean ?
elias,
We have two MAJOR rules regarding optimization. These rules really
go beyond python, but this is a good place to learn them.
The two rules of optimization:
The first is:
1) DON'T DO IT!
The second is only for advanced programmers.
2) Don't do it, yet!
Until you have working code, there is nothing to optimize. You can
spend months optimizing and refactoring a for loop only to find out
that you are hung up on a network operation. Write the program
first. Then see if it needs tweaking. other wise you are simply
rewriting this:
for None in None:
pass
~ro
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