Agree — it is perhaps a bit strange to use an operator for something other than dictionary-to-dictionary operations.
And, yes, benchmarking is the only way to know—but I think your hypothesis is a good one. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/LFDLZRTYDMETNHEW76QLEWUZPINSXU3P/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/