Straw poll on Python performance (was Re: Python is far from a top performer ...)

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Friday 09 January 2004 14:09, Peter Hansen wrote:
>
> Yes or no answers suffice, but feel free to follow up with a paragraph
> qualifying your answer (or quantifying it!).  :-)
>

not any longer.

As I learned on this and the tutor list, writing code in Pythonic style tends 
to also result in code being fast enough.  Most of my early problems resulted 
from trying to write C in Python.