Fast attribute/list item extraction

[Michael Hudson]

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:

> "Raymond Hettinger" <vze4rx4y at verizon.net> writes:
> > Not only is the lambda unattractive, it is slow.  This situation is
> > not unique to sort(), it comes up with other functionals like map()
> > and filter().  A new itertool called groupby() also faces the same
> > situation.
> > 
> > So, the idea was born to add a fast extract function maker to the operator
> > module:
> 
> Better to improve the compiler so that lambda makes good code.

Any ideas how to do that?

Cheers,
mwh

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