In this case, the keys are strings.  I'm assuming the hash function is
pretty fast.  There should only be about 10 keys max, though.

-j

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 05:41:59PM -0700, Dan Price wrote:
> On Thu 02 Oct 2008 at 07:34PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
> > In the case that you had a lot of items, I could see the try/except 
> > being faster since you wouldn't incur the lookup expense.  In initial 
> > attempts, I could see the exception overhead slowing things down.
> 
> That has been my observation in the past, that the try/except overhead is
> too much.  The "key" thing is to make sure your key type has a fast hash
> function.
> 
>         -dp
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