Quoting Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm going to be doing some work where I'll be doing existence > testings on keys on about a million records where it may require > multiple passes so I'm a bit concerned about the timing of these > tests.
If you're just doing existence testing, is it an option to use a set? (builtin to Python 2.4) I admit, I don't know how it performs. But it would seem the most appropriate of the builtin data structures. -- John. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
