On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > > Miheer Dewaskar, 03.07.2012 13:11: > > I am not sure,but if there are large number of states Dictionaries wont > > help much right? > > Dicts are fast for lookup, not for searching. > What do you mean by searching in the context of Dicts?
> > Anyway, does python have a built-in BST like data-structure ? > > It has lists and bisect: > > http://docs.python.org/library/bisect.html But insertion and deletion in a list is o(n): http://wiki.python.org/moin/TimeComplexity/#list -- Miheer Dewaskar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list