On Sep 8, 3:33 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:16:46 -0300, Dr Mephesto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribi?: > > > hey, that defaultdict thing looks pretty cool... > > > whats the overhead like for using a dictionary in python? > > Dictionaries are heavily optimized in Python. Access time is O(1), > adding/removing elements is amortized O(1) (that is, constant time unless > it has to grow/shrink some internal structures.) > > -- > Gabriel Genellina
well, I want to (maybe) have a dictionary where the value is a list of 5 lists. And I want to add a LOT of data to these lists. 10´s of millions of pieces of data. Will this be a big problem? I can just try it out in practice on monday too :) thanks
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