[Tutor] Dictionary - count values where values are stored as a list
Kent Johnson
kent37 at tds.net
Mon Oct 1 18:32:54 CEST 2007
GTXY20 wrote:
>
> This works perfectly.
>
> However I will be dealing with an import of a very large dictionary - if
> I call the commands at command line this seems to be very taxing on the
> CPU and memory and will take a long time.
>
> I was thinking of creating each as a fucntion whereby python would just
> to write to a file instead of calling within a python shell do you think
> that this would speed up the process?
I don't understand what you are suggesting.
Both of your requirements just need the values of the dict. If the dict
is being created from a file, you could probably build the count dicts
on the fly as you read the values without ever creating the dict with
all the items in it.
Kent
>
> All in total I will probably be looking at about 2 million dictionary
> keys with assorted value quantities.
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