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use as arguments to functionals:
\samp{map(mydict.__getitem__, keylist)}.
+\item Added an newcode opcode, \code{LIST_APPEND}, that simplifies
+ the generated bytecode for list comprehensions and speeds them up
+ by about a third.
+
\end{itemize}
The net result of the 2.4 optimizations is that Python 2.4 runs the