Hari Sekhon wrote: > That is surprising since I read on this list recently that lists were > faster than dicts
depends on what you're doing with them, of course. > It was one reason that was cited as to why local vars are better than > global vars. L[int] is indeed a bit faster than D[string] (but not much), but that doesn't mean that you can loop over *all* items in a list faster than you can look up a single key in a dictionary. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
