>> On a 32-bit system, the dictionary can have up to 2**31 slots, >> meaning that the maximum number of keys is slightly smaller >> (about 2**30). > > Which, in practice, means that the size is limited by the available memory.
Right. Each slot takes 12 bytes, so the storage for the slots alone would consume all available address space. >From that point of view, you can't possibly have more than 314M slots in a 32-bit address space (roughly 2**28). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
