[Python-Dev] 2.4a2, and @decorators (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Aug 6 02:35:05 CEST 2004

>> 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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