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).
As a footnote, this program
import random
num = 100000
a = set( range(num) )
for i in range(100000):
x = random.randint(0, num-1) in a
completes in less than a second, whereas
import random
num = 100000
a = range(num)
for i in range(100000):
x = random.randint(0, num-1) in a
takes a long time on my computer.
Jeremy
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