Re: Should I use "if" or "try" (as a matter of speed)?
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Re: Should I use "if" or "try" (as a matter of speed)?

From: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Date: Sun Jul 10 2005 - 16:00:15 CEST



aahz@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:


> Using ``in`` saves a bytecode of method lookup on ``has_key()`` (which is


> the correct spelling).



You are right.  My example is somewhat out of date w/r/t newer language 


features, and writing hasKey() instead of has_key() was just plain a 


mistake.  Thanks for the corrections.


Received on Thu Sep 29 16:51:50 2005