A Python 3000 Question

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-10-30, Eduardo O. Padoan <eduardo.padoan at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a FAQ:
> http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-does-python-use-methods-for-some-functionality-e-g-list-index-but-functions-for-other-e-g-len-list.htm

Holy Airy Persiflage Batman!

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
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>>> import timeit
>>> timeit.Timer('len(seq)', 'seq = range(100)').timeit()
0.20332271187463391
>>> timeit.Timer('seq.__len__()', 'seq = range(100)').timeit()
0.48545737364457864

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Neil Cerutti