[Tutor] fast list traversal

[Dinesh B Vadhia]

Bob:  Nothing special is being done on the elements of the list - additions/subtractions/ - and storing the results in an array. That's it.

Dinesh



From: bob gailer 
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:40 AM
To: Dinesh B Vadhia 
Cc: tutor at python.org 
Subject: Re: [Tutor] fast list traversal


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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