On 1/24/08, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [John Barham]
> > But getting back to the original issue, what does using
> > frozensets gain you over using a tuple:
> >
> > if urlext in ('html', 'xml', 'php'):
>
> With sets, the search is O(1).
> With tuples, it is O(n).
> Sets win on inputs longer than 1.I thought you tried changing those tuples to frozensets (because it was semantically better), and found that it didn't actually win for tuples of length 2 or 3. -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
