Karl H. wrote: > Does anybody know why defining __delitem__ is causing the code to run > slower? It is not being called, so I don't see why it would affect > performance.
probably because overriding portions of the internal sequence slot API (tp_as_sequence) means that Python needs to do full dispatch for all members of that API, instead of keeping things at the C level. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
