Generator slower than iterator?

[rdmurray at bitdance.com]

Quoth Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:07:14 -0300, Federico Moreira wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Im parsing a 4.1GB apache log to have stats about how many times an ip
> > request something from the server.
> > 
> > The first design of the algorithm was
> > 
> > for line in fileinput.input(sys.argv[1:]):
> >     ip = line.split()[0]
> >     if match_counter.has_key(ip):
> >         match_counter[ip] += 1
> >     else:
> >         match_counter[ip] = 1
> 
> nitpick:
> dict.has_key is usually replaced with 
> if ip in match_counter: ...

I'd say it's just slightly more than a nitpick nowadays:  since Python
3.0 does not support has_key, it's time to get used to not using it :)

--RDM