> Can you really say that you don't make any design > decisions early on based on the assumption that > dict lookup will almost certainly be a lot faster > than searching a list?
I follow the advice Guido gave: I use the data structure that will make my code shortest and easiest to read, regardless of performance consequences initially. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
