In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Peters wrote: > [Tim Peters] >>>>> You should also note that copying a dict key or value (no matter of >>>>> what type) consists in its entirety of copying one machine address (a >>>>> 4- or 8-byte pointer, depending on platform). > > [Lawrence D'Oliveiro] >>>> Actually, no. It also consists of updating reference counts as well. > > [Tim Peters] >>> Not in context: dict resizing is refcount-neutral... > > [Lawrence D'Oliveiro] >> The question wasn't about resizing, it was about "copying a dict key or >> value". > > Then you misunderstood the OP. He was asking about dict resizing:
Which is not what you were talking about, in the part of your posting that I was responding to (above). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
