Speeding Up Python

Question

This is really two questions, but they are so similar, and to keep it simple, I figured I\'d just roll them together:

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Answer 1

It's often possible to achieve near-C speeds (close enough for any project using Python in the first place!) by replacing explicit algorithms written out longhand in Python with an implicit algorithm using a built-in Python call. This works because most Python built-ins are written in C anyway. Well, in CPython of course ;-) https://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str/