Dan Schult <dsch...@colgate.edu> added the comment: Thank you... I stand corrected.... That's actually very helpful!
Of course using defdict makes the default assignment take two hashes, two lookups, an attribute/function lookup (__missing__) and the extra function call, plus doesn't allow arguments to the object factory... but it means that there is a hook into the dict API that allows us to create something when GetItem/subscript gives a KeyError... I understand much more what I should be doing and where to look for it. Thanks very much! I still would prefer that the C-API allow PyDict_SetItem to be called without a hash or lookup. Maybe a method called PyDict_SetEntry(). But I haven't really looked at it, don't have a patch and am not sure if it is worth it. I am willing to spend time doing looking into that kind of thing if you think that might be helpful. Otherwise I will put it on my list of fun-projects-for-hazy-summer-weekends and get to it when I get to it. Dan ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5730> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
