Re: How to create a tuple quickly with list comprehension?

[Hatem Nassrat]

on Wed Jun 13 10:17:24 CEST 2007, Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de wrote:

>markacy wrote:
>

>On 13 Cze, 09:45, "fdu.xia... at gmail.com" <fdu.xia... at
>gmail.comwrote :

>>Hi all,
>>>
>>I can use list comprehension to create list quickly. So I
>>expected that I
>>can created tuple quickly with the same syntax. But I
>>found that the
>>same syntax will get a generator, not a tuple. Here is my
>>example:
>>>
>>In [147]: a = (i for i in range(10))
>>>
>>In [148]: b = [i for i in range(10)]
>>>
>>In [149]: type(a)
>>Out[149]: <type 'generator'>
>>>
>>In [150]: type(b)
>>Out[150]: <type 'list'>

[...]

>You should do it like this:
>>

>>>>a = tuple([i for i in range(10)])
>>>>type(a)

><type 'tuple'>

[...]

>No need to create the intermediate list, a generator
>expression works just
>fine:
>
>a = tuple(i for i in range(10))

Well I have looked into this and it seems that using the list
comprehension is faster, which is reasonable since generators require
iteration and stop iteration and what not.

# If you really really want a tuple, use [24] style
# if you need a generator use [27] style (without the tuple keyword
# off course)

In [24]: %timeit tuple([x for x in range(1000)])
10000 loops, best of 3: 185 µs per loop

In [25]: %timeit tuple([x for x in range(1000)])
1000 loops, best of 3: 195 µs per loop

In [26]: %timeit tuple([x for x in range(1000)])
10000 loops, best of 3: 194 µs per loop

############### ############### ############### ####

In [27]: %timeit tuple((x for x in range(1000)))
1000 loops, best of 3: 271 µs per loop

In [28]: %timeit tuple((x for x in range(1000)))
1000 loops, best of 3: 253 µs per loop

In [29]: %timeit tuple((x for x in range(1000)))
1000 loops, best of 3: 276 µs per loop

Thanks

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Hatem Nassrat