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| author | Seth M Morton <seth.m.morton@gmail.com> | 2017-01-26 23:33:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Seth M Morton <seth.m.morton@gmail.com> | 2017-01-26 23:33:54 -0800 |
| commit | d8b1d363b1f31a7fa0110e20e30f8e6eece96880 (patch) | |
| tree | eec81af69192be454d786d2df077ac65fe66fb46 /docs | |
| parent | 47705d0fb2e716e643d8f927e206cbda33ab890a (diff) | |
| download | natsort-d8b1d363b1f31a7fa0110e20e30f8e6eece96880.tar.gz | |
Added how it works doctests to TravisCI.
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diff --git a/docs/source/howitworks.rst b/docs/source/howitworks.rst index 396f162..a59b173 100644 --- a/docs/source/howitworks.rst +++ b/docs/source/howitworks.rst @@ -213,10 +213,11 @@ Here are some timing results run on my machine: What can we learn from this? The ``try: except`` method (arguably the most "pythonic" of the solutions) is best for numeric input, but performs over 5X slower for non-numeric -input. Conversely, the regular expression method, though slower than ``try: except`` for both input types, -is more efficient for non-numeric input than for input that can be converted to an ``int``. Further, even though -the regular expression method is slower for both input types, it is always at least -twice as fast as the worst case for the ``try: except``. +input. Conversely, the regular expression method, though slower than ``try: except`` for +both input types, is more efficient for non-numeric input than for input that can be +converted to an ``int``. Further, even though the regular expression method is slower +for both input types, it is always at least twice as fast as the worst case for the +``try: except``. Why do I care? Shouldn't I just pick a method and not worry about it? Probably. However, I am very conscious about the performance of :mod:`natsort`, and want it to be a true |
