Delaney, Timothy (Tim) a écrit : > Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > >>Dr Mephesto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>I would like to create a pretty big list of lists; a list 3,000,000 >>>long, each entry containing 5 empty lists. (snip) > >>If you're building large data structures and don't need to reclaim >>cyclical references, I suggest turning GC off, at least during >>construction. > > This is good advice, but another question is whether you really want > such a list. You may well be better off with a database of some kind - > they're designed for manipulating large amounts of data.
Hear hear... At least some sensible answer !-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list