deprecation of has_key?

Thu Apr 21 11:03:47 EDT 2005

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:50:25 -0600 Steven Bethard wrote:

SB> Huh?  I'm not following your logic.  Why is "item in dict" less
SB> readable than "dict.has_key(item)"?  Something to do with expecting
SB> inverses that don't exist?
SB> 
SB> Personally, I use "item in dict" because it's quite readable to me,
SB> and generally faster.

For me dictionary is a collection of key-value pairs, but not a
collection of keys (that's what set is).

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