2009/2/27 odeits <ode...@gmail.com>: > How big of a list are we talking about? If the list is so big that the > entire list cannot fit in memory at the same time this approach wont > work e.g. removing duplicate lines from a very large file.
We were told in the original question: more than 15 million records, and it won't all fit into memory. So your observation is pertinent. -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list