Dec-30-2016, 09:54 AM
I think '&' operator will be faster
In [1]: %time 5 % 2 == 1 CPU times: user 0 ns, sys: 0 ns, total: 0 ns Wall time: 4.05 µs Out[1]: True In [2]: %time 5 & 1 == 1 CPU times: user 0 ns, sys: 0 ns, total: 0 ns Wall time: 3.1 µs Out[2]: True