generator expressions: performance anomaly?

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2005-01-18, Steve Holden schreef <steve at holdenweb.com>:

> Python is *designed* as a dynamic language. I wish you would embrace 
> this aspect rather than continually trying to shoehorn it into a static 
> straitjacket. Efficiency is good. Flexibility is better.

Flexibility is better? IMO flexibilty implies more than one way to do
things. But that is a big no no here in c.l.py.

I also see a lot of remarks that go: "Don't do this!" when some of
the more dynamic aspects are talked about, because there are 
security risks involved. One of the results was that I ended up
writing a parser for some kind of game instead of just dumping the
structure in textual form and doing an eval of the file when reading
it in. But if I need a parser I could just as well used a static
language.

I'm beginning to guess the dynamic aspect of python is overrated.

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Antoon Pardon