No built-in swap function?

[Gandalf]

Josiah Carlson wrote:

>> The xorswap function is not much use for anything other than numbers,
>> however, I would have expected a psyco'ed xorSwap to much faster than
>> the alternatives!
>
>
> You are testing function calling overhead.  Try the below...
>
> import time
>
> def tupleswap(a,b):
>     t = time.time()
>     for i in xrange(100000):
>         a,b=b,a;a,b=b,a;a,b=b,a;a,b=b,a;a,b=b,a;
>         a,b=b,a;a,b=b,a;a,b=b,a;a,b=b,a;a,b=b,a;
>     print "1 million tuple swaps in", time.time()-t, "seconds."

AFAIK, this seems to be 10 thousand instead of 1 million (and 10 mil 
instead of 100 mil for
the psyco test).

  G