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? ---------- nosy: +aahz _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9800> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com