Python dictionary size/entry limit?

[Stefan Behnel]

intelliminer at gmail.com wrote:
> Ummm, I didn't know about the dbm databases. It seems there are many
> different
> modules for this kind of tasks: gdbm, berkeley db, cdb, etc. I'm
> needing to implement
> a constant hashtable with a large number of keys, but only a small
> fraction of them
> will be accessed frequently, the read speed is crucial. It would be
> ideal if
> the implementation caches all the frequently used key/value pairs in
> memory. Which
> module should I use? And is there a way to specify the amount of
> memory it uses for caching?
> BTW, the target platform is Linux.

Their interfaces are mostly compatible to Python dicts. Just keep your code
independent at the beginning and benchmark it against all of them.

Stefan