[Tutor] Dictionaries
Victor Bouffier
victor at grupocdm.com
Sun Jan 29 20:31:46 CET 2006
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:20 -0500, Kent Johnson wrote:
> It doesn't make much difference for small dictionaries. keys(), values()
> and items() create new lists with the specified elements. iterkeys(),
> itervalues() and iteritems() create iterators that return the specified
> elements in sequence. So for the common case of iterating over dict
> elements with a for loop, the 'iter' variants conserve memory and may be
> faster (but always check!) because of the cost of creating the list.
>
> The iter variants are relatively new (since Python 2.2). I used to use
> the older variants in examples here so I wouldn't have to explain the
> difference :-) but ISTM that modern usage is heading to prefer the iter
> versions and I am starting to use them myself.
>
> But I guess you will not notice any difference in performance until you
> have dicts with many thousands of elements.
>
> Kent
>
Hi Kent and Alan,
Thanks to both for your response.
Victor
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