On Nov 13, 11:27 am, Francesc Altet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another possibility is using an indexed column in a table in a DB. > Lookups there should be much faster than using a dictionary as well.
I would agree with others who state that for a simple key based lookup nothing beats a dictionary. But knowing that you are one of the authors of the excellent pytables module I think you are approaching this problem from the perspective of reading in a large number of values on each access. In those cases specialized libraries (like the hdf) can directly load into memory huge amounts of continuous data at speeds that substantially outperform all other approaches. i. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
