Newbie: Large dictionaries

[Steve Purcell]

Mikkel Rasmussen wrote:
> Why can't there be more than about 65.000 entries in a dictionary, or more
> importantly: how can I make a large dictionary with room for at least
> 500.000
> elements?

It's probably a memory issue: how big are the keys and/or values?

On my machine, I can easily get a million entries into a dictionary:-

>>> dict = {}
>>> try:
...   for i in xrange(1000000):
...     dict[i] = None
... except:
...   print "stopped at", i
...   raise
... 
>>> 

-Steve

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