Useful short Python decorator to convert generators into lists

Thu 11 February 2016

Python generators are awesome. Why ? their syntax is simple an concise they lazily generate values and hence are very memory efficient bonus point: since Python 3 you can chain them with yield from Their drawback ? They can be iterated only once, and they hide the iterable length. I took an …

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Handy recipe for timing Python code execution time

Sat 20 June 2015

The timeit module is useful for micro benchmarks, but does not allow to measure execution time of large snippets, as it requires the code tested to fit in a string. Hence, I went looking for a context or decorator-based solution. And I found this bug report commented by Guido van …

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