[pygtk] ListStore iter vs. path

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Dec 4 15:32:40 WST 2007


Caleb Marcus wrote:
> One question I have is, what's 
> the difference between iters and paths?

At a guess, I'd say that iters are likely to be more
efficient, as they can hook directly into the underlying
data structure, whereas a path requires some sort of
lookup operation each time it's used. Whether this
difference remains detectable amongst all the other
overhead of Python/C interfacing is uncertain,
though.

I'd say just use whichever is more convenient for
you, and only worry about performance if it becomes
an issue.

--
Greg


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