On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 11:45 -0700, [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, see e.g. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/03e9b4276846b9c0 -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list