unintuitive dict timings

[Bob van der Poel]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> 
> def sede(key, val):
>     d.setdefault(key, []).append(val)
> 
> appears to be very marginally fastest, but again it's a close call:

Ahhh, an example of setdefault(). I looked at this in the docs but it 
really didn't make much sense.... I'll give this a try just to see what 
difference it makes.

Thanks.

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