Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: > Ignore the 'adjacent items' remark. The rest is correct ie. looking > for all strings containing a substring x.
Perhaps this would help: http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/suffix_trees/ A SubstringDict that maps each string to itself would do exactly what you want. I have no idea what the performance would be... Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor