In this code, why is the second output faster than the first!?
Both do almost the same thing and have the same result.
from timeit import timeit
lst = [0] * 10000000
txt1 = "any(i % 2 for i in lst)"
txt2 = "any(True for i in lst if i % 2)"
print(timeit(txt1, globals=globals(), number=2))
print(timeit(txt2, globals=globals(), number=2))
result:
Time : 2.112963530991692
Time : 0.9412867689970881
like @sj95126 said in the comments: the first produces 10000000 values for any() to check, the second generator produces 0 values
you can check it by calling list on it instead of any, in a more smaller sample of course
>>> lst = [0]*10
>>> any(i % 2 for i in lst)
False
>>> list(i % 2 for i in lst)
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
>>> any(True for i in lst if i % 2)
False
>>> list(True for i in lst if i % 2)
[]
>>>
The reason is due to what each generator produces. The first generator produces 10000000 False values. The second generator produces nothing, because i % 2 will never be non-zero.
You can see a similar difference by removing the generator and the list creation from the timings:
>>> x = []
>>> y = [0] * 10000000
>>> timeit("any(x)", globals=globals(), number=2)
3.900029696524143e-06
>>> timeit("any(y)", globals=globals(), number=2)
0.12017650000052527