Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Josiah Carlson wrote: > > def intern(st): > > ... > > > > If I remember the implementation of intern correctly, that's more or > > less what happens under the covers. > > That doesn't quite give you everything that real interning > does, though. The string comparison method knows when both > strings are interned, so it can compare them quickly > whether they are equal or not. Your version could detect > equal strings quickly, but not unequal strings.
Assuming that dictionaries and the hash algorithm for strings is not hopelessly broken, I believe that one discovers quite quickly when two strings are not equal. Simple testing seems to confirm this, but I didn't work too hard to disprove it either. - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
