Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

At any rate, I believe this used to be a fast-path.  IIRC, Aahz put it in after 
demonstrating a considerable speed boost for common cases.  Aahz, do you have 
any institutional memory around this one?

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