Consider using literal syntax to create the data structure PTC-W0019
Performance
Minor
6 months ago
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6 months old
unnecessary
list call - write as literal286 guesses_remaining = GUESS_LIMIT
287 warnings_remaining = 3
288 good_guess = 0
289 guesses_combine = list()290 print(secret_word)
291
292
Description
Using the literal syntax can give minor performance bumps compared to using function calls to create dict, list and tuple.
In [1]: timeit.timeit(stmt="dict()", number=100000000)
Out[1]: 9.560388602000103
In [2]: timeit.timeit(stmt="{}", number=100000000)
Out[2]: 1.685333584000091
In [3]: timeit.timeit(stmt="tuple()", number=100000000)
Out[3]: 4.509182139000131
In [4]: timeit.timeit(stmt="()", number=100000000)
Out[4]: 0.5455615430000762
In [5]: timeit.timeit(stmt="list()", number=100000000)
Out[5]: 7.356000728000254
In [6]: timeit.timeit(stmt="[]", number=100000000)
Out[6]: 1.573771306999788
This is because here, the name dict must be looked up in the global scope in case it has been rebound.
Same goes for the other two types list() and tuple().