On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:31:13 -0500 Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > I am a little puzzled why a constant sequence of pairs is being stored > as a mapping instead of a tuple (or list) of 2-tuples (which is compiled > more efficiently). As near as I can tell, 'tests' and similar constructs > later in the file are never used as mappings. Am I missing something or > is this just the way Catalin wrote it?
This is just the way Catalin wrote it. If the style bothers you, you can always change it. I don't think it makes much of a difference either way. (but if you really care about compilation efficiency in tests you are probably the victim of premature optimization) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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