Populating a dictionary, fast

[Ricardo Aráoz]

Michael Bacarella wrote:
>>> This would seem to implicate the line id2name[id] = name as being
>  excruciatingly slow.
>> As others have pointed out there is no way that this takes 45
>> minutes.Must be something with your system or setup.
>>
>> A functionally equivalent code for me runs in about 49 seconds!
>> (it ends up using about twice as much ram as the data on disk)
> 
> You can download the list of keys from here, it's 43M gzipped:
>     http://www.sendspace.com/file/9530i7
> 
> and see it take about 45 minutes with this:
> 
> $ cat cache-keys.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
> v = {}
> for line in open('keys.txt'):
>         v[long(line.strip())] = True

Have you tried taking the long away? I mean :
         v[line.strip()] = True