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Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Feb 10 06:47:19 CET 2015


Donald Stufft wrote:

why is: print(*[1], [2], 3) better than print([1] + [2] + [3])?

It could potentially be a little more efficient by eliminating the construction of an intermediate list.

defining + or | or some other symbol for something similar to [1] + [2] but for dictionaries. This would mean that you could simply do:

func(**dict1 | dict(y=1) | dict2)

Same again, multiple ** avoids construction of an itermediate dict.

-- Greg



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