Yes, that makes sense. I can't wait to run it tonight. Sorry I can't give you the running time of my original function as it never finished :-(
I'll report back the running time of the new function though, assuming it finishes ;-) Thanks again, -Greg On 12/14/05, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gregory Piñero wrote: > > > Here's a question about your functions. if I only look at the keys in > > freq2 then won't I miss any keys that are in freq1 and not in freq2? > > No. As I start with a copy of freq1, all keys of freq1 are already there. > There is probably a loop involved, but it in Python's underlying C > implementation, which is a bit faster. > > What is left to do is to (1) add key and value for the 20% of freq2 that are > not in freq1, and to (2) increase the value for the 80% where the key > occurs in both freq1 and freq2. This is done by the for-loop. > > Peter > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Gregory Piñero Chief Innovation Officer Blended Technologies (www.blendedtechnologies.com) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list