On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 23:57 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> writes: > > But _you_ only _just_ stated "It does have some (generally small) > > performance ramifications as > > well" and provided timing examples to show it. Without qualification. > > The performance difference can be large if the objects are (for > example) long lists.
I would think (not having looked) that the implementation of == would first check for identity (for performance reasons)... but then that lead me to ask: can an object be identical but not equal to itself? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
