Set data structure..

[Lexy Zhitenev]

"Alessio Pace" <puccio_13 at yahoo.it> wrote:
news:uSL4a.20711$uA5.509282 at tornado.fastwebnet.it...
> Hi, I am a python newbie, so this could be a silly question:
> I need a Set like data structure, I just see list and dictionary as
> built-in. Should I use one of those for my set purpose(I was thinking
about
> using a dictionary giving meaning only to the keys, but it seems a waste
of
> space for large inputs) and if so, which one has better access performance
> to check if an element is in the set? Thanks!

I can't think of specialized Set classes, but I don't think that you're
gonna use very large sets. Then, the dictionaries is what you might wish.
The lookup of the keys is far faster than from lists.

Lexy.