Jeff Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > Additionally, as I understand it UserList and UserDict are implemented > entirely in Python, which means that there can be significant > performance differences as well.
Actually, UserList and UserDict are just wrappers around the builtin types. So the performance hit is one Python function call - pretty much neglible. But new code should still subclass the builtins. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list