Performance: sets vs dicts.

[Aahz]

In article <878w3ogpvq.fsf at benfinney.id.au>,
Ben Finney  <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>>
>> That reminds me: one co-worker (who really should have known better ;-)
>> had the impression that sets were O(N) rather than O(1).
>
>For settling exactly this kind of confusion, Python's standard library
>comes with a module, the timeit module. Your co-worker should have
>known better: don't guess about timing performance, measure it.
>
>Or am I missing something here?

Possibly; IMO, people should not need to run timeit to determine basic
algorithmic speed for standard Python datatypes.
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