[Python-3000] Set literal
Raymond Hettinger
python at rcn.com
Fri Jan 25 04:56:36 CET 2008
[Jim Jewett]
> 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.
The sets were faster. The automatic transformation didn't
go in because it changed semantics -- the searched for item
would need to be hashable -- the tuple search only requires
an equality test.
Raymond
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