I have rather simple 'Address' object that contains streetname, number, my own status and x,y coordinates for it. I have two lists both containing approximately 30000 addresses.
I've defined __eq__ method in my class like this: def __eq__(self, other): return self.xcoord == other.xcoord and \ self.ycoord == other.ycoord and \ self.streetname == other.streetname and \ self.streetno == other.streetno But it turns out to be very, very slow. Then I setup two lists: list_external = getexternal() list_internal = getinternal() Now I need get all all addresses from 'list_external' that are not in 'list_internal', and mark them as "new". I did it like this: for addr in list_external: if addr not in list_internal: addr.status = 1 # New address But in my case running that loop takes about 10 minutes. What I am doing wrong? -- Jani Tiainen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list