[Python-Dev] A new dictionary implementation (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Feb 2 19:49:53 CET 2012

Am 02.02.2012 12:30, schrieb Chris Withers:

On 01/02/2012 17:50, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Another question: a common pattern is to use (immutable) class variables as default values for instance variables, and only set the instance variables once they need to be different. Does such a class benefit from your improvement? A less common pattern, but which still needs to work, is where a mutable class variable is deliberately store state across all instances of a class...

This is really just a dictionary implementation. It doesn't affect any of the lookup procedures. If you trust that the dictionary semantics on its own isn't changed (which I believe is the case, except for key order), none of the dict applications will change.

Regards, Martin

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