On Jul 13, 6:53 pm, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > bukzor: > >> You need to use two dictionaries. Here's a class that someone's > >> written that wraps it up into a single dict-like object for you: > >>http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/4376 > > > It contains code like: > > > try: > > del self.data[item] > > except KeyError: > > pass > > > Exceptions are useful in python, but with dictionaries this is > > probably faster (and shorter), even if it may perform two lookups: > > > if item in self.data: > > del self.data[item] > > > Bye, > > bearophile > > The only case where it would be faster would be if most of the keys were NOT > in > the dictionary (rather odd use case). Otherwise I believe you will find the > first way quicker as the exceptions are infrequent. > > -Larry
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