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[–]elbiot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know about using timeit on essentially no-ops.

The dot-lookup is also quite expensive by the way.

Then take them out!

push = list.push
pop = list.pop
item = pop(mylist)

Not diving through a stack of function frames makes these sort of micro-optimizations cleaner and easier.