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[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

Le mercredi 22 octobre 2014 10:54:51 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit :
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> Poor performance is a crime. Python is innocent until proven guilty.
> And the burden of proof is seldom met.
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>>> timeit.repeat("('abc'*1000 +'z')[:-1]")
[1.4107052484530875, 1.3924774653606349, 1.3934069318508087]
>>> timeit.repeat("('abc'*1000 +'EURO')[:-1]")
[5.427585698976522, 5.39270195514851, 5.40894516974776]
>>>

Not only this disastrous (and systematic) behaviour
is explainable, I have no problem to explain this
to those who wish to listen.

jmf