Michele Petrazzo wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >> but what the better > > > > Depends on the context. > > > > If know only one context: see if the key are into the dict... What other > context do you know? > > Michele
Perhaps Bruno meant this: try: ... my_dict[key] ... except: ... when we expect that the key will most often be in my_dict so that exception will be raised rarely, otherwise use if key in dict André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list