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Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 11 06:34:15 CET 2015


Victor Stinner wrote:

Le 10 févr. 2015 06:48, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz_ _<mailto:greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>> a écrit : > It could potentially be a little more efficient by > eliminating the construction of an intermediate list.

Is it the case in the implementation? If it has to create a temporary list/tuple, I will prefer to not use it.

The function call machinery will create a new tuple for the positional args in any case. But if you manually combine your * args into a tuple before calling, there are two tuple allocations being done. Passing all the

Similarly for dicts and ** args.

-- Greg



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