How to use a 5 or 6 bit integer in Python?

[Rainer Deyke]

Glen Wheeler wrote:
>   I'll be sure to do this.  Will it increase the hash speed for the
> big dictionary significantly?  Will lookup times or memory storage
> requirements decrease?

Using strings instead of tuples of integers should decrease memory usage.  A
character in a string is stored as a single byte, whereas each tuple element
needs four bytes.


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