Maric Michaud continuò: > > But I hoped in a more exaustive answer: why python has to do this > > lookup when the __lt__ method is not involved at all? > > It is not the case, that's what my program shows : > > <class '__main__.StateEQ'> > > in operator at the beginning of list: 173 > in operator at the end of list: 28249 <- here > > converting to dict : 79 > in operator for a dict for 60000 elements: 14 > > <class '__main__.StateLTEQ'> > > in operator at the beginning of list: 202 > in operator at the end of list: 30472 <- and here
It is very obvious that these two have similiar timings, as both call __eq__. I asked why the State and StateLT don't give similar results, but StateLT is noticeably slower. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
