Danny Yoo wrote: > But as Kent mentioned, though, perhaps the easiest thing to implement is a > simple linear scan across all your key-values, and not worry until we know > this is a performance hotspot. *grin* It really depends on how many > entries we're searching against.
Another alternative is just a list of (key, value) pairs, that is easy to search with linear search. The only reason to keep a dict is if you are at some point doing a lookup by key. Without knowing more about your app I don't know if that is a requirement or not. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
