Strings and Lists

[Sidharth Kuruvila]

Hi,
   I not sure what sorts of operations you plan to do. But if you
intend to use fixed length arrays or even carrying out repetetive
operations. You should probably look at numeric
http://numeric.scipy.org/


On 18 Apr 2005 04:42:17 -0700, Tom Longridge <tomlongridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> My current Python project involves lots repeatating code blocks,
> mainly centred around a binary string of data. It's a genetic
> algorithm in which there are lots of strings (the chromosomes) which
> get mixed, mutated and compared a lot.
> 
> Given Python's great list processing abilities and the relative
> inefficiencies some string operations, I was considering using a list
> of True and False values rather than a binary string.
> 
> I somehow doubt there would be a clear-cut answer to this, but from
> this description, does anyone have any reason to think that one way
> would be much more efficient than the other? (I realise the best way
> would be to do both and `timeit` to see which is faster, but it's a
> sizeable program and if anybody considers it a no-brainer I'd much
> rather know now!)
> 
> Any advice would be gladly recieved.
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