On Sep 20, 5:02 am, Karthik Gurusamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the new model, at the time of addition, you need to remember the > key at that time. If it's a list, you make a copy of the items. In other words you ask the dict to freeze any mutable keys given to it. Try an implementation and you will find it is impractical. Checking for mutability then doing deep copies of keys and would consume time in something that greatly affects the speed of Python as a whole. Pythons designers give *you* the option of doing this and leave the underlying dict speedy. I can live with that.
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