Psycho question

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Wed Aug 6 16:59:50 EDT 2008


David C. Ullrich wrote:

> Thanks. I would have guessed that I'd want low-level style code;
> that's the sort of thing I have in mind. In fact the only thing
> that seems likely to come up right now is looping through an
> array of bytes, modifying them. The plan is to use the array
> module first to convert a string or a list to an array, outside
> the accelerated part, then maybe do something like
> 
> for j in range(len(bytes)/3):
>   g = (bytes[3*j] + bytes[3*j+1] + bytes[3*j+2])/3
>   bytes[3*j] = bytes[3*j+1] = bytes[3*j+2] = g

If len(bytes) is large, you might want to use `xrange`, too.  `range` 
creates a list which is not really what you need.

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