> I am struggling to work out what is the ideal Python data structure > for the above. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The normal way is to use a dictionary of lists. The key would be the dictionary key, which would contain a list or a list of lists, that is each name would be an element of the list unless the name is more than one word, in which case each name would be converted to a list and appended to the key. Some pseudo-code if key in name_dic: name_dic[key] += [name] ## converted to list If this doesn't work, then SQLite can be used in memory. There are examples on the website. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
