Fast attribute/list item extraction

[Michael Hudson]

bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) writes:

> Excuses, rationalizations. I don't wan't to incite a contest, but
> IMO "key=" is misleading ;-)

Well, I don't, and I seem to be winning at the moment :-)

Cheers,
mwh

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