'del' function for Dictionary

2009-07-17 Thread mayank gupta
Hi all, I wanted to know whether there is a more efficient way to delete an entry from a dictionary (instead of using the 'del' function), because after analyzing the time taken by the code, it seems to me that the 'del' function takes most of the time. I might be incorrect as well. Kindly help me

Re: Tree structure consuming lot of memory

2009-07-06 Thread mayank gupta
nt changes in the memory usage even when the "dimension" was doubled -- Any clues? Thank you for all your suggestions till this point. Regards. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > mayank gupta gmail.com> writes: > > > > After a little analysis

Re: Tree structure consuming lot of memory

2009-07-06 Thread mayank gupta
gards. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:55 AM, mayank gupta wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am creating a tree data-structure in python; with nodes of the tree > > created by a simple class : > > > > class Node : >

Tree structure consuming lot of memory

2009-07-06 Thread mayank gupta
Hi, I am creating a tree data-structure in python; with nodes of the tree created by a simple class : class Node : def __init__(self , other attributes): # initialise the attributes here!! But the problem is I am working with a huge tree (millions of nodes); and each no