[Tutor] Fastest way to iterate through a file

[Reed O'Brien]

On Jul 1, 2007, at 7:13 PM, elis aeris wrote:
>
>  might just end my quest for
> optimized python source code.
> ugh,
>
> what does it mean ?


elias,

We have two MAJOR rules regarding optimization.  These rules really  
go beyond python, but this is a good place to learn them.

The two rules of optimization:

The first is:
1) DON'T DO IT!

The second is only for advanced programmers.
2) Don't do it, yet!


Until you have working code, there is nothing to optimize. You can  
spend months optimizing and refactoring a for loop only to find out  
that you are hung up on a network operation.  Write the program  
first. Then see if it needs tweaking. other wise you are simply  
rewriting this:

for None in None:
     pass

~ro



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