Re: 'del' function for Dictionary

2009-07-17 Thread Terry Reedy
mayank gupta wrote: Hi all, I wanted to know whether there is a more efficient way to delete an entry from a dictionary (instead of using the 'del' function), because after analyzing the time taken by the code, it seems to me that the 'del' function takes most of the time. That is hard to i

Re: 'del' function for Dictionary

2009-07-17 Thread Michiel Overtoom
mayank gupta wrote: after analyzing the time taken by the code, What code? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

'del' function for Dictionary

2009-07-17 Thread mayank gupta
Hi all, I wanted to know whether there is a more efficient way to delete an entry from a dictionary (instead of using the 'del' function), because after analyzing the time taken by the code, it seems to me that the 'del' function takes most of the time. I might be incorrect as well. Kindly help me