Did you read the post until the end? The OP is asking a question related to a very low level detail of dict implementation and making an offer to write a patch that could speed-up dict.setdefault() in core CPython... IMHO, a poll on python-dev do makes sense...
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Aahz <a...@pythoncraft.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009, Dan Schult wrote: >> >> I'm trying to write a C extension which is a subclass of dict. >> I want to do something like a setdefault() but with a single lookup. > > python-dev is for core development, not for questions about using Python. > Please use comp.lang.python or the capi-sig list. > -- > Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ > > "...string iteration isn't about treating strings as sequences of strings, > it's about treating strings as sequences of characters. The fact that > characters are also strings is the reason we have problems, but characters > are strings for other good reasons." --Aahz > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/dalcinl%40gmail.com > -- Lisandro Dalcín --------------- Centro Internacional de Métodos Computacionales en Ingeniería (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) PTLC - Güemes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com