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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as you do all your lookups with dicts or sets performance is pretty decent for smaller workloads.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Python is secretly a functional-paradigm language. If you're not making liberal use of comprehensions instead of loops (especially loops with LBYL conditions in them), you're doing it wrong.