Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?

[BartC]

On 08/03/2016 01:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 07:19 am, BartC wrote:
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>> I don't have to hand a jpeg file that it can't
>> decode.
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> Run this under Python 2:
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> from random import randint
> blob = [randint(0, 256) for i in range(16*1024)]
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> with open('broken.jpg', 'wb') as f:
>      f.write(''.join(blob))
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> If your software can decode that, it will be a miracle.
>

That's not a jpeg file.

(You code didn't run even on Python 2, but I created a 16KB file of 
random bytes by other means. It said 'Reading past end of data', 
presumably looking for some marker or other.)

-- 
Bartc