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On 11/03/2016 21:53, Charles T. Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:44:27 +0000, Charles T. Smith wrote:
>
>>  From the performance point of view, which is better: - hasattr()
>> - x in y
>>
>> TIA
>> cts
>
>
> I just realized that "in" won't look back through the class hierarchy...
> that clearly makes them not interchangable, but given we're only
> interested in the current dict...
>

Dict, don't you mean collection?  Or, to put it another way, what 
exactly were you originally asking?

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