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Fri Aug 6 02:35:05 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/047014.html

> >> class C(random.choice([dict, list])):
> >>     pass
> >>
> >> is my favourite example of this :-)
> >
> > Where is THAT monstrocity used!?
> 
> Well, it's not, I hope :-)

Hmmm... maybe if you had some algorithm that was more efficient
using either a list or a dict, depending on the input data, but
in a way that makes it difficult to tell ahead of time which
to use, and you want to improve the average behaviour...

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