On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > if not recs.has_key(piid): # [1] > Why not
if piid not in recs: That is shorter, simpler, easier to read and very slightly faster. Plus you can change the data structure of recs later without changing that line so long as it implements containment testing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list