"André" wrote: > 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
on my machine, "key in dict" is about twice as fast as the full try/getitem con- struct when the key is present in the dict, so that's not a very good optimization. now, if the OP had been interested in the associated value, things might have been a bit different. </F>
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