On 29-Jul-2010, at 11:41 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Navkirat Singh <navkir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry, I might have been a bit vague: >> (Also, I am new to pythong) >> I am trying to do construct my own web session tracking algorithm for a web >> server (which also I have constructed). The book keeping is for the session >> information I track. The dictionary object will do this for me. I was >> initially using a plain dictionary object, but I read this in the >> documentation that made me think about the question I asked :- > > Does your program actually make use of the ordering? If so, then yes, > using OrderedDict is obviously preferable (Why reimplement something > needlessly?). If not, then why bother with the extra complication? > > (You are aware that the "ordered" in OrderedDict means that its keys > are ordered, and not that, say, a list containing OrderedDicts can be > sorted, right?) > > Cheers, > Chris > -- > http://blog.rebertia.com
I am still in the analysis phase/experimental phase and the need might arise. Hence, I just wanted to know my options. If a collections object will improve performance than an ordinary dictionary, then yes I would like to go with the OrderedDict. Thanks, Nav -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
