Is-dict? (RE: [Python-Dev] The memo of pickle)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 07 Aug 2002 16:29:08 +1200 (NZST)


> The *effect* of that could be gotten via a wrapper object
> ...
> but if Martin is worried about two-tuple sizes, he's not going to fall in
> love with that.

Indeed, which is why I suggested it.

I was wondering whether it would be worth putting one of
these in the standard library. I could have used one in
Plex, when I wanted to map a dictionary to something else
by identity, and I wanted to do it as fast as possible.

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