speedup up dictionary access

[William Park]

On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 05:21:32PM -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>    if (self.cache.has_key (name) and self.cache[name]) or self.check (name):
>       do stuff
> 
> check() returns 0 or 1 based on the value of name, and also inserts this 
> value into the cache.

Just checking... only if cache[name] is 0 or does not exist, right?

> Which is faster?

Try both.

--William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
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