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Writing faster Python

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Writing faster Python
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Sebastian Witowski - Writing faster Python Presentation on how you can write faster Python in your daily work. I will briefly explain ways of profiling the code, discuss different code structures and show how they can be improved. You will see what is the fastest way to remove duplicates from a list, what is faster than a _for_ loop or how “asking for permission” is slower than “begging for forgiveness”. ----- Did you know that Python preallocates integers from -5 to 257 ? Reusing them 1000 times, instead of allocating memory for a bigger integer, can save you a couple of milliseconds of code’s execution time. If you want to learn more about this kind of optimizations then, … well, probably this presentation is not for you :) Instead of going into such small details, I will talk about more _"sane"_ ideas for writing faster code. After a very brief overview of how to optimize Python code (rule 1: don’t do this, rule 2: don’t do this yet, rule 3: ok, but what if I really want to do this ?), I will show simple and fast ways of measuring the execution time and finally, discuss examples of how some code structures could be improved. You will see: - What is the fastest way of removing duplicates from a list - How much faster your code is when you reuse the built-in functions instead of trying to reinvent the wheel - What is faster than the good ol’ _for_ loop - If the lookup is faster in a list or a set (and when it makes sense to use each) - How the “It's better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission” rule works in practice