Hi, what would be the most efficient way to do following? I have a list of dictionaries taken from DB e.g. dblist = [{'id:1, 'host':'google.com','ip_address':'1.2.3.4'}, {'id:3, 'host':'yahoo.com','ip_address':'5.6.7.8'}, {'id:9, 'host':'msn.com','ip_address':'11.3.2.3'}]
and list of object instances in memory(it's just for example) which are looping within itself and testing particular hosts memlist = [<instance 1>,<instance 2>] memlist[0].id is 1 and memlist[0].host is google.com etc. memlist[1].id is 9 and memlist[1].host is msn.com etc. Now I want to add a new instance to memlist since id=3(in dblist) is not in memlist. How would you iterate through it and insert a new instance? The result should be: memlist = [<instance 1>,<instance 2>, <instance 3>] memlist[0].id is 1 and memlist[0].host is google.com etc. memlist[1].id is 3 and memlist[1].host is yahoo.com etc. memlist[2].id is 9 and memlist[2].host is msn.com etc. Furthermore, I can have the opposite situation. This time I need to remove from memlist a host which is not in dblist. How would you do this? The way how it works is that DBlist is loaded every 10 minutes and compares with memlist. The memlist should be the same as dblist. Could you help me, please? I'm working on my version of this but somebody might be quicker than me. In case I have it done I will post it. Thanks, Lada There is and wt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list