[Tutor] fast list traversal

bob gailer bgailer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 19:40:17 CET 2008


Dinesh B Vadhia wrote:
> I need to process a large number (> 20,000) of long and variable 
> length lists (> 5,000 elements) ie.
>  
> for element in long_list:
>     <do something with element>        # the result of this operation 
> is not a list
>  
> The performance is reasonable but I wonder if there are faster Python 
> methods?

I don't know of any. Of course it could depend on what you are doing 
with each element. Say more!

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