On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 13:50 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carsten > Haese wrote: > > has_key() will go away, period. It has been made obsolete by "in", which > > is faster and more concise. > > And is also a backdoor way of introducing non-virtual methods into Python, > is it not.
If by that you mean that "in" tests can't be overridden, that's not true: >>> class LyingDict(dict): ... def __contains__(self, key): return False ... >>> d = LyingDict() >>> d[1] = 42 >>> 1 in d False If you mean something else, please clarify. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
