hi all, i have a big list of tuples like this:
[ (host, port, protocol, startime, endtime), .. ] etc now i have another big(ger) list of tuples like this: [(src_host, src_port, dest_src, dest_port, protocol, time), ... ] etc now i need to find all the items in the second list where either src_host/src_port or dest_host/dest_port matches, protocol matches and time is between starttime and end time. After trynig some stuff out i actually found dictionary lookup pretty fast. Putting the first list in a dict like this: dict[(host,port,protocol)] = (starttime, endtime) then: if (((src_host,src_port, protocol) in dict or (dest_host, dest_port, protocol) in dict) and starttime < time < endtime): print "we have a winner" I have also been looking at the bisect module, but couldnt figure out if it was what I was looking for... any ideas? regards, Guyon Moree http;//gumuz.looze.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
