Simon Strobl: > I had a file bigrams.py with a content like below: > bigrams = { > ", djy" : 75 , > ", djz" : 57 , > ", djzoom" : 165 , > ", dk" : 28893 , > ", dk.au" : 854 , > ", dk.b." : 3668 , > ... > } > In another file I said: > from bigrams import bigrams
Probably there's a limit in the module size here. You can try to change your data format on disk, creating a text file like this: ", djy" 75 ", djz" 57 ", djzoom" 165 ... Then in a module you can create an empty dict, read the lines of the data with: for line in somefile: part, n = .rsplit(" ", 1) somedict[part.strip('"')] = int(n) Otherwise you may have to use a BigTable, a DB, etc. > If there is no other way to do it, I will have to learn how to use > databases in Python. I would prefer to be able to use the same type of > scripts with data of all sizes, though. I understand, I don't know if there are documented limits for the dicts of the 64-bit Python. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list