I have written a program that reads data and updates the records for some people. They are represented by objects, and I need to read the data from a file, look the person up and then update his record.
I have implemented this by creating a list with all the people's names and another list with their objects (their data). It works but after profiling the code it turns out that half the time spent in the program is spent in the list.index() function looking up names. Isn't there a less goofy and more efficient way of doing this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
