Hello. I have approx 83 million strings, all 14 characters long. I need to be able to take another string and find out whether this one is present within the 83 million strings.
Now, I have tried storing these strings as a list, a set and a dictionary. I know that finding things in a set and a dictionary is very much faster than working with a list, so I tried those first. However, I run out of memory building both the set and the dictionary, so what I seem to be left with is the list, and using the in method. I imagine that there should be a faster/better way than this? TIA, Karin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
