Efficient python programming...

[William Park]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:40:15PM +0200, Shagshag13 wrote:
> 
>  I'm looking for any state of art, optimizing techniques, tips, that a
> python beginner couldn't know by itself, but should learn and
> would be aware to write "efficient and good looking"python's code...

Actually, I don't recommend this approach.  I recommend you look at your
algorithm and try to translate that to Python syntax.  Optimization should
occur at the modelling and algorithm side of things.

> 
>  (not the kind of thing which made you an obfuscated python nerd,
> but that "map" should be preferred to "for in loop" if possible, that
> dictionary are very well optimized, etc.)

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