How do Python dictionary hash lookups work?

Question

How do Python dictionary lookup algorithms work internally?

mydi[\'foo\'] 

If the dictionary has 1,000,000 terms, is a tree search execut

Answer 1

As you mentioned in your title, dicts are hash tables. No tree searching is used. Looking up a key is a nearly constant time operation, regardless of the size of the dict.

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