alt Hacker NewsI don't understand why numeric filters are included. The library is written in python, so shouldn't a lambda function based filter be roughly as fast but much easier/clearer to write.
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yunohn • 11/20/2024
AFAICT this should filter in one pass, so it would be faster than multiple lambdas, or this plus a lambda for numeric.
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I'm not the author, but this implementation has the benefit of being a JSON compatible DSL that you can serialize. Maybe that's intentional, maybe not.
It does look like Python's comprehensions would be a better choice if you're writing them by hand anyway.