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Fri Aug 6 09:33:43 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/047061.html

On Friday 2004-08-06 01:35, Greg Ewing wrote:
> > >> 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...

... then you'd do better to find which out of (dict,list)
does better on average, and always use that one. Sorry. :-)

-- 
g

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