Any problems with *lots* of attributes?

[Aahz]

In article <1024d7q40b86r2a at news.supernews.com>,
John Roth <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote:
>
>I believe the memory overhead for dictionaries is 4 times that for
>lists on a per item basis, however both data structures allocate
>extra space so that they don't have to reallocate too frequently
>(a very expensive operation.)

Should be only double; where do you get four times?  (Note that I'm
talking strictly about the dict itself, not the space consumed by the
keys.)
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