[Python-3000] Set literal

[Jim Jewett]

On 1/24/08, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> [John Barham]
> > But getting back to the original issue, what does using
> > frozensets gain you over using a tuple:
> >
> > if urlext in ('html', 'xml', 'php'):
>
> With sets, the search is O(1).
> With tuples, it is O(n).
> Sets win on inputs longer than 1.

I thought you tried changing those tuples to frozensets (because it
was semantically better), and found that it didn't actually win for
tuples of length 2 or 3.

-jJ