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Author rhettinger
Recipients eric.smith, miss-islington, paul.moore, rhettinger, sreedevi.ha, steven.daprano, terry.reedy
Date 2020-09-29.16:18:20
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> If space is not an issue, the list comprehension may be fastest.

I think there is still a misunderstanding here.  The generator variant does not save space.  It uses slightly *more* space than the list variant.

The list_ass_slice()¹ function runs PySequence_Fast² on its input.  If the input is already a list or tuple, it is returned immediately.  If not, the iterator is run to exhaustion and a new list is built.  Either way, when the actual update occurs, the source will be a list or tuple.

¹ https://github.com/rhettinger/cpython/blob/master/Objects/listobject.c#L597
² https://github.com/rhettinger/cpython/blob/master/Objects/abstract.c#L2014
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