> 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. Have a look at the shelve module.
If you want to write the algorithm yourself, I suggest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie HTH, -- Miki http://pythonwise.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
