On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Christoph Groth <c...@falma.de> wrote: > Dear python experts, > > I use a huge python dictionary where the values are lists of that > dictionary's keys (yes, a graph). Each key is thus referenced several > times. > > As the keys are rather large objects, I would like to save memory by > re-using key objects wherever possible, instead of having several equal > objects in memory. > > There does not seem to be a way to retrieve the original key from a > python dictionary. Is there a technical reason for this? (Other than > that such functionality was not considered to be useful enough.)
Define "original key". Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
