[BangPypers] How to search a word list very fast

[Roshan Mathews]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Amit Sethi <amit.pureenergy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to develop a sort of keyword generator for blog posts much like
> the Yahoo Keyword service . As an initial idea I am using the list of most
> used 3000 words in project Gutenberg as being redundant . My question is
> what is the best way to organize my data and what algorithms would allow me
> to search this list the fastest.
> I am sorry for asking a very algorithmic question on the list but I don't
> know where I can ask my more algorithmic problems suggestions on that would
> be great
>

Use a dict() if you want to store counts, or a set()

Worry about performance when you have to.

Roshan