Re: Python sol'n to qotw 23 (parens)

Andrew Dalke wrote:
> ## qotw23.py
> # Python solution to the Perl quiz of the week #23

I enjoyed reading your solution, I have no Python experience but it's
pretty clear and always fun to see another path to a familiar goal.


> Here's what I get for timings on my 1GHz PowerBook G4.
> I tried with both the --count option and by generating
> all the output > /dev/null (wanted to see how much I/O
> overhead there was).  I ran them on the command-line
> so the 0.12s or so is basically the startup costs.
> 
>                               Output
>                   Count     >/dev/null  Bill's
> Size    Count    Time(in s)   (in s)    times
> ----   ------    ------     ------    ------
>  0          0      0.13       0.14      0.08
>  1          1      0.12       0.12      0.06
>  2          2      0.12       0.12      0.18
>  3          5      0.12       0.12      0.06
>  4         14      0.12       0.12      0.11
>  5         42      0.12       0.12      0.10
>  6        132      0.12       0.12      0.09
>  7        429      0.13       0.13      0.15
>  8       1430      0.15       0.15      0.31
>  9       4862      0.22       0.24      0.57
> 10      16796      0.49       0.54      1.57
> 11      58786      1.52       1.82      6.04
> 12     208012      5.41       6.42     19.62
> 13     742900     22.39      24.77     64.13
> 14    2674440     90.73      89.12    228.41
> 15    9694845    291.84     343.68      n/a


> I don't see any other posts which list the sizes.  I would like to
> have the double check.

I found the same counts over here.


regards,
jereme