[poll] anyone else needs fast random element access off a dictionary?

[David Eppstein]

In article <mailman.1044981517.1322.python-list at python.org>,
 Michal Vitecek <fuf at mageo.cz> wrote:

>  i'd like to ask if there exist people (like me) who have a need to get
>  random elements off a dictionary and cannot use lists because they need
>  a fast data lookup/retrieval.

Any reason you can't create your own module that stores both a list and 
a dict, keeps them in synch, uses the dicts for the fast lookups, and 
uses the lists for fast random access?

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/