Hari Sekhon wrote:
> That is surprising since I read on this list recently that lists were
> faster than dicts
depends on what you're doing with them, of course.
> It was one reason that was cited as to why local vars are better than
> global vars.
L[int] is indeed a bit faster than D[string] (but not much), but that
doesn't mean that you can loop over *all* items in a list faster than
you can look up a single key in a dictionary.
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