Python is faster than C

[Paul Rubin]

Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> writes:
> >>> enumerate([6,7,8,9])         # uh ?
> <enumerate object at 0x401a102c>
> 
> I know you can always do list(_).  My point is that this is a
> user-visible optimization.  enumerate() should return a normal list, and
> it should be someone else's job to ensure that it is correctly optimized
> away if possible (and I'm not even talking about Psyco, it could be done
> in the current Python implementation with a reasonable amount of
> effort).

I think enumerate(xrange(1000000000)) returning a normal list would
exhaust memory before some later optimizer had a chance to do anything
with it.