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"R. Tyler Croy" <tyler@linux.com> writes:

> The reasons things like list comprehensions and generator expressions
> are recommended in Python is because they're faster in the CPython
> implementation of the language since they get to native C "faster"
> (with less interpretation and bytecode).

I had no idea that list comprehensions were faster (I have no idea
whether Mac OS X's native Python is a CPython implementation!), I used
them because they are so expressive!