Needless copying in iterations?

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> writes:

> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:05:55 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > The compiler for a dynamic language like Python has very little
> > absolute "no significant side-effect in these specific cases"
> > guarantee of the kind you're assuming even in the cases you choose
> > for contrast with the ones that *do* have significant
> > side-effects.
> 
> Yes, in general one might not be able to make those guarantees, but
> still there are common cases where you can.

Perhaps. All my message was intended to show was that your message
didn't contain any such cases.

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Ben Finney