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[Alex Martelli]

Jim Richardson wrote:
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> I don't know how fast/slow the dict would be to tell the truth, it just
> doesn't seem that "elegant" and elegance, is often (wrongly I know)
> associated with speed.

It's quite usual that in Python the simplest and most elegant solution
can also be very fast.  But I dispute that dicts aren't elegant!!!


> Having said that, I have found that usually, the simpler the script, and
> the closer to the pythonic "metal" it is, the faster it is. For some
> reason, the folks who wrote python, are a lot better at programming that
> I am :)

Sure.  But dicts are VERY "close to the Pythonic metal"...!


Alex