PS: I know that equality for user classes defaults to identity. But I'm obviously interested to the case when equality has been possibly redefined and I still need identity.
Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: Samuele Pedroni pedronis@bluewin.ch To: python-dev@python.org Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 5:43 PM Subject: [Python-Dev] object equality vs identity, in and dicts idioms and speed
Hi,
[Ok this is maybe more a comp.lang.python thing but ...]
If I'm correct dictionaries are based on equality and so the "in" operator.
AFAIK if I'm interested in a dictionary working on identity I should wrap my objects ...
Now what is the fastest idiom equivalent to:
obj in list
when I'm interested in identity (is) and not equality?
That was the comp.lang.python part, now my impression is that in any case when I'm interested in identity and not equality I have to workaround, that means I will never directly have the performace of the equality idioms. Although my experience say that the equality case is the most common, I wonder whether some directy support for the identity case isn't worth, because it is rare but typically then you would like some speed. [Yes, I have some concrete context but this is long so unless strictly requested ...]
Am I missing something? Opinions.
regards.
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