Recursion provides opportunities for you to come up with elegant solutions to difficult problems, and loops do for regular everyday jobs efficiency and simplicity. Python programmers have an ...

$ ./python -m timeit -r11 -unsec -s 'from a import data, msum' 'sum(data)' 500000 loops, best of 11: 606 nsec per loop (2) also seems to be a no-brain task: simple refactoring of PyFloat ...