Hi, Basically, what I'm trying to do is store large amounts of data in a list or dictionary and then convert that to a custom formatted xml file.
My list looks roughly like this: (d[],r[c[d[p[],p[R,C,I]]]]) My question is, would it be faster to use a dictionary if the elements of the lists have to be put in alphebetical order, or just use lists as above(since hashes are faster supposedly)? {d;d[],r;name[{d;d[{p;p[]}],c;name[{d;d[{p;p[]}]}]}]} Please consider the amount of code necessary to create/decode this (and sorry if this doesn't make any sense..) -thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list