On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Martin Manns <mma...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi:
Hi, > I am writing a spreadsheet application in Python What's wrong with pyspread ? [ ... snip ... ] > The dict that I tried out is of the type: > > {(1,2,3): "2323", (1,2,545): "2324234", ... } > > It is too slow for my application when it grows. One slicing operation > with list comprehensions takes about 1/2 s on my computer for 1E6 > elements. Let me get this straight. It's taking 0.5s to slice your matrix of 1E7 (10000000.0 rows/columns) Are you mad ? This is TEN Millions and you required it faster than 0.5s ? Am I missing something here ? cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list