On 8/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That wish will only come true if you maintain your own fork of Python 3. > > has_key() will go away, period. It has been made obsolete by "in", which > > is faster and more concise. > > Is there really some reason "key" IN dict can be implemented faster > than dict.has_key("key")??? >
Yes. As an exercise, I wont tell you the first most obvious reason - see if you can figure it out. The dis module may help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list