Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a fast, functionally equivalent way of doing this? > > (Yes, I really do need this cached. No, an RDBMS or disk-based hash > is not fast enough.)
As Steven says maybe you need to add more ram to your system. The memory overhead of dictionary cells is considerable. If worse comes to worse you could concoct some more storage-efficient representation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list