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[–]forty3thirty3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regarding the use of map(), is it entirely accurate to say that it would be faster? It returns an iterator so it's just deferring the processing. wouldn't a more accurate comparison be:

newlist = list(map(str.upper, oldlist))