which is more pythonic/faster append or +=[]

[Steven Bethard]

7stud wrote:
>> Is there any documentation for the syntax you used with timeit?
> 
> This is the syntax the docs describe:
[snip
> python timeit.py [-n N] [-r N] [-s S] [-t] [-c] [-h] [statement ...]
[snip]
> Then in the examples in section 10.10.2
[snip]
> timeit.py 'try:' '  str.__nonzero__' 'except AttributeError:' '  pass'
[snip]
> and then there is Alex Martelli's syntax:
[snip]
> python -mtimeit 'L=range(3); n=23' 'x=L[:]; x.append(n)'

The following three things are equivalent:
     python /path/to/<module>.py
     /path/to/<module>.py         # assuming the OS knows how to exec it
     python -m<module>            # assuming <module> is on sys.path

So that just leaves the differences between:
     [-n N] [-r N] [-s S] [-t] [-c] [-h] [statement ...]
     'try:' '  str.__nonzero__' 'except AttributeError:' '  pass'
     'L=range(3); n=23' 'x=L[:]; x.append(n)'

Those look pretty similar to me (aside from the fact that they're 
testing different things). Each argument in single quotes is a line of 
the code you want timed.

HTH,

STeVe