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Re: Python 3: dict & dict.keys()

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Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> - Views support efficient (O(1) in the case of keys) membership testing,
>> which neither iterkeys() nor Python2 keys() does.
> 
> To save me the trouble and potential error of digging through the
> source code: What's the complexity of membership testing on
> values/items? Since you're calling it "efficient" it must be better
> than O(n) which the list form would be, yet it isn't O(1) or you
> wouldn't have qualified "in the case of keys". Does this mean
> membership testing of the values and items views is O(log n) in some
> way, eg a binary search?

keys() and items() is O(1); both look up the key in the dictionary and 
items() then proceeds to compare the value. values() is O(n).

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  Re: Python 3: dict & dict.keys() alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-07-25 16:01 +1000
    Re: Python 3: dict & dict.keys() Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-07-25 06:47 -0700
  Re: Python 3: dict & dict.keys() Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-25 07:04 +0000
    Re: Python 3: dict & dict.keys() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-25 18:02 +1000
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    Re: Python 3: dict & dict.keys() Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-07-25 09:53 -0600
    Re: Python 3: dict & dict.keys() Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-07-25 18:25 +0200

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