Accessing container's methods

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>>    def list_actors( self ):
>>      h=[]
>>      for n in self.actors:
>>        h.append( n.get_name() )
>>      return h
>
>
> return list(self.actors)  # or perhaps even faster
> return self.actors[:]

Not identical semantics. This is a use-case for a comprehension:

return [n.get_name() for n in self.actors]

(although I would eschew the getter in favour of just "n.name")

ChrisA