Caching Strategies/Database question
Alex Martelli
aleaxit at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 26 14:21:33 EDT 2001
"Brian Kelley" <kelley at bioreason.com> wrote in message
news:3AE84904.C69D88C0 at bioreason.com...
> I am using a dictionary to hold
>
> {string:[list of integers]}
>
> key: values
>
> The dictionary is randomly accessed to add an integer to the list
> referenced by the string.
Just on the off-chance... are the integers in some restricted range
and their order in the list irrelevant? If so, you may be able to
save a bundle by coding the list of integers as a bitset -- not
really Python-related, but sometimes still very useful.
Alex
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