Timing comparisons for creating a tuple from a generator expression versus a list comprehension

tuple_gen_exp_vs_list_comp.py

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from timeit import timeit
from tqdm import tqdm

gen_exp = "tuple(x for x in range({}))"
list_comp = "tuple([x for x in range({})])"


N = range(1, 500_001, 5000)


times_gen = [
    timeit(gen_exp.format(n), number=50) for n in tqdm(N)
]

times_list_comp = [
    timeit(list_comp.format(n), number=50) for n in tqdm(N)
]

pd.DataFrame(
    dict(generator_expression=times_gen, list_comp=times_list_comp), index=N
).plot()
plt.savefig('result.png')