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Even in Python 2.4 the built-in set is based on the Python dictionary. This is why the speed results were so similar.In Python 2.5 it has been optimised further with a custom internal data-structure, and *should* be faster.Fuzzyman
I'd say that list(set([...])) is short enough? Or you could just work from the set directly. And I think the built-in set got a lot faster going from 2.3 to 2.4, due to it being rewritten in C.
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Even in Python 2.4 the built-in set is based on the Python dictionary. This is why the speed results were so similar.
In Python 2.5 it has been optimised further with a custom internal data-structure, and *should* be faster.
Fuzzyman
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I'd say that list(set([...])) is short enough? Or you could just work from the set directly. And I think the built-in set got a lot faster going from 2.3 to 2.4, due to it being rewritten in C.