On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:39:27 -0700, dmtr wrote: > Steven, thank you for answering. See my comments inline. Perhaps I > should have formulated my question a bit differently: Are there any > *compact* high performance containers for unicode()/str() objects in > Python? By *compact* I don't mean compression. Just optimized for > memory usage, rather than performance. > > What I'm really looking for is a dict() that maps short unicode > strings into tuples with integers.
Use UTF-8 encoded strings (str/bytes) as keys rather than unicode objects. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
