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8 Python Performance Tips I Discovered

After Years of Coding in Python
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4 min read · Oct 11, 2024

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Hey Everyone!! I wanted to share these Python Performance tips, that i feel that
everyone should be aware of, since it took a lot of effort and mistakes for me to
learn it. So, here are eight performance tips that have made a real difference in
my projects. Dont forget to bookmark them for further reference.

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You know how sometimes you need to process a huge list of items? Like, say, a
million records from a database. Many a times, storing and retreiving all this
memory might be very resource intensive for our usecase, thats when we can use
generators that help us to generate items and hence allocate memory without the
need of loading everything at once.

Instead of:

data = [process(item) for item in big_list]

Try:

def data_generator(big_list):
for item in big_list:
yield process(item)

for item in data_generator(big_list):

# Do something with item

I remember the first time I switched to generators — it felt like magic. Suddenly,
my script wasn’t hogging all the RAM, and everything just ran smoother.

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