Performance of list vs. set equality operations

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:02:23 -0300, Patrick Maupin <pmaupin at gmail.com>  
escribió:
> On Apr 8, 6:35 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>
>> The CPython source contains lots of shortcuts like that. Perhaps the  
>> checks should be stricter in some cases, but I imagine it's not so easy  
>> to fix: lots of code was written in the pre-2.2 era, assuming that  
>> internal types were not subclassable.
>
> I don't know if it's a good "fix" anyway.  If you subclass an internal
> type, you can certainly supply your own rich comparison methods, which
> would (IMO) put the CPU computation burden where it belongs if you
> decide to do something goofy like subclass a list and then override
> __len__.

We're all consenting adults, that's the Python philosophy, isn't it?
If I decide to make stupid things, it's my fault. I don't see why Python  
should have to prevent that.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina