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[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sat, 27 May 2017 09:37 am, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> If they write a loop with range(1,10) they are going in the 'no' pile.
>> If they write a loop with range(1,11) they go in the maybe pile
>> If the write sum([i*i for i in range(1,11)]) and sqrt(sum([i for i in
>> range(1,11)])) they are going in the yes pile.
> 
> And if they leave off the square brackets, even better. :)

If they leave out the square brackets, the code might be slower.

I know that ''.join() is about 30% faster with a list comprehension than a
generator expression, but I'm not sure about sum().


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Steve
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