...ctionary lookups (as Sven points out in the comments there are exceptions, for example classes that define __slots__). Function locals can be optimised for speed because the compiler (usually) knows all the names in advance, so there isn't a dictionary until you call locals(). In the C implementati...

... @Dubslow: you can do that by using the itertools module. For your case use the function islice, with start=1, stop=None. This will avoid any copies and use lazy evaluation (in your case lazy access ot the original list). – Spiros Jun 25 '15 at...

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