Which is More Efficient?

[John Machin]

Dustan wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> are you for real?

> And what exactly is that supposed to mean?

The obscurity in that communication is probably caused by the instance
of the effbot with which you have been corresponding having been
invoked with mildmannered=True -- apparently this is not the default
value for that arg and the constraints so imposed can lead to lack of
precision in the output :-)

HTH,
John