int vs long

[Peter Otten]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> Dan Bishop <danb_83 at yahoo.com> writes:
>> If you ever do, it's trivial to write your own enumerate():
>> def enumerate(seq):
>>     index = 0
>>     for item in seq:
>>         yield (index, item)
>>         index += 1
> 
> That's a heck of a lot slower than the builtin, and if you're running it
> often enough for sys.maxint to be an issue, you may care about the speed.

Yes, but the overall slowdown is probably still negligable when you are
doing anything useful inside the for loop.

Peter