On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 13:57 +0000, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > If that's the *only* such use, I'd experiment with writing them as > sortable text to file, and run GNU sort (the Unix utility) on the file. > It seems to have a clever file-backed sort algorithm.
+1 - and experiment with the different flags to sort (compression of intermediate results, intermediate batch size, etc) Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list