What is the best way to join tuples?

[Terry Hancock]

On Thursday 14 November 2002 09:16 pm, dique wrote:
> Thanx Raymond and Terry! Both of you have great solutions.Work like a charm!

Welcome of course. Interesting problem really -- not quite as easy at it 
sounded.

> I wonder which is more efficient :p

Hearsay says that list comprehensions are slower than regular loops, but I've 
never actually compared them.  I doubt the difference is really noticeable.
Raymond's solution appears to be more general.

Personally, I'm more interested in which is clearer.  I always find that I 
can't write a list comprehension (beyond really trivial cases) until I've 
written the solution out as a loop. But after the fact, when I look at the 
two, the list comprehension seems clearer (even in this case).

But then I wonder, would it seem clear to someone coming to it fresh?

Terry

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