Aug. 6, 2004
7:33 a.m.
On Friday 2004-08-06 01:35, Greg Ewing wrote:
class C(random.choice([dict, list])): pass
is my favourite example of this :-)
Where is THAT monstrocity used!?
Well, it's not, I hope :-)
Hmmm... maybe if you had some algorithm that was more efficient using either a list or a dict, depending on the input data, but in a way that makes it difficult to tell ahead of time which to use, and you want to improve the average behaviour...
... then you'd do better to find which out of (dict,list) does better on average, and always use that one. Sorry. :-) -- g