Karl H. wrote:
> Does anybody know why defining __delitem__ is causing the code to run
> slower? It is not being called, so I don't see why it would affect
> performance.
probably because overriding portions of the internal sequence slot API
(tp_as_sequence) means that Python needs to do full
Hi,
I was performing some timing tests on a class that inherits from the
built-in list, and got some curious results:
import timeit
class MyList(list):
def __init__(self):
list.__init__(self)
self[:] = [0,0,0]
def __delitem__(self,index):
print 'deleting'
