python map string split list

Question

I am trying to map the str.split function to an array of string. namely, I would like to split all the strings in a string array that follow the same format. Any id

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>>> from timeit import Timer
>>> t = {}
>>> t['methodcaller'] = Timer("map(methodcaller('split', ' '), a)", "from operator import methodcaller; a=['2011-12-22 46:31:11','2011-12-20 20:19:17', '2011-12-20 01:09:21']")
>>> t['lambda'] = Timer("map(lambda s: s.split(), a)", "a = ['2011-12-22 46:31:11','2011-12-20 20:19:17', '2011-12-20 01:09:21']")
>>> t['listcomp'] = Timer("[s.split() for s in a]", "a = ['2011-12-22 46:31:11','2011-12-20 20:19:17', '2011-12-20 01:09:21']")
>>> for name, timer in t.items():
...     print '%s: %.2f usec/pass' % (name, 1000000 * timer.timeit(number=100000)/100000)
... 
listcomp: 2.08 usec/pass
methodcaller: 2.87 usec/pass
lambda: 3.10 usec/pass