Re: Best way to handle large lists?

[Hari Sekhon]

Jeremy Sanders wrote: Chaz Ginger wrote: What would sets do for me over lists? It's faster to tell whether something is in a set or dict than in a list (for some minimum size). Jeremy That is surprising since I read on this list recently that lists were faster than dicts and that variables stored in lists were faster referenced/used. It was one reason that was cited as to why local vars are better than global vars. The guy actually did a looping test and timed it to show the speed difference. Can anybody please step in and correct us? -h Hari Sekhon

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