Populating a dictionary, fast

[Michael Bacarella]

> > 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
> 
> On my system (windows vista) your code (using your data) runs in:
> 
> 36 seconds with python 2.4
> 25 seconds with python 2.5
> 39 seconds with python 3000

*wow*

The win32 Python or the cygwin Python?

What CPU architecture?