Is it expected for access to set elements to be much slower than access to list elements? Explanation? Thanks, Alan Isaac
>>> t1=timeit.Timer("for i in set(xrange(10000)):pass","") >>> t2=timeit.Timer("for i in list(xrange(10000)):pass","") >>> t1.timeit(1000) 9.806250235714316 >>> t2.timeit(1000) 3.9823075279120701 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list