Are lists at least as efficient as dictionaries?

[Chad Netzer]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 07:54, Jp Calderone wrote:

>   += could simply be syntactic sugar for a call to __add__ and then an
> assignment.  This would work for mutable and immutable objects.

But it loses the advantage that some objects would otherwise have of
being able to mutate in place, without allocating a new object (ie. very
large matrix additions).

-- 
Chad Netzer