[Bf-committers] Re: [Bf-blender-cvs] CVS commit: blender/release/scripts bevel_center.py

[Campbell Barton]

Joe Eagar wrote:
> Campbell Barton wrote:
>> campbellbarton (Campbell Barton) 2006/02/24 05:03:15 CET
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     blender/release/scripts bevel_center.py     Log:
>>   Should now work with python 2.3, also optimized dictionary's a bit. 
>> keys -> iterkeys and has_key -> try/except
>>     Revision  Changes    Path
>>  
> I thought has_key was written specifically to be more optimized then 
> try/except?
>
> joeedh
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has_key is probably marginaly faster then try/except. But in the case 
where your checking for the key, and assigning to the dict if the keys 
not there- Its faster to do 1 dict lookup with an exception then 2 dict 
lookups.
Cam


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