Lots of very good answers to a pretty stupid question! *blush*
I guess there is more than one way to do it!
Uh ... guys? Did I say something wrong...?
<sounds of a thorough beating with a haddock>
On Dec 28, 2007 12:23 PM, Tony *** <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Doug,
>
> You can also use exceptions instead of the if /else. It has more of a
> pythonic syntax to it, but I'm not sure about performance.
>
> try:
> dict[ record[0] .append( record ) ]
> except:KeyError
>
> dict[ record[0] ] = [record]
>
>
> To help performance a bit, don't call dict.keys() on every iteration,
> since you're invoking a function.
>
> dict = {}
> allKeys =dict.Keys
> for record in list
> if record[0] in allKeys:
> dict[ record[0] .append( record ) ]
> else:
> dict[ record[0] ] = [record]
> allKeys = dict.Keys() # this function is
> only invoked some of the time, not on every iteration
>
>
> See how much this helps your performance. It may not be much, but a
> little can help
>
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