On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Benjamin Schollnick <benja...@schollnick.net > wrote:
> > On May 6, 2012, at 11:57 AM, J. Mwebaze wrote: > > I have several lists with approx 1172026 entries. I have been trying to > sort the records, but have failed.. I tried lists.sort() i also trired > sorted python's inbuilt method. This has been running for weeks. > > Any one knows of method that can handle such lists. > > > The issue there is the sheer size of the list. I can't think of an > algorithium that wouldn't have a problem with a list of that size. > > Two suggestions.... > > 1) Is there no other way to organize this data, other than having it in a > single list? You can't organize it by, for example, zip code, area code, > year, or something, and make multiple lists? Reducing the size would speed > the sort up. > > 2) Maybe consider a different storage method, for example, adding the data > into a database? And then connecting to the database via python? > > - Benjamin > > I could try the database option.. -- *Mob UG: +256 (0) 70 1735800 | NL +31 (0) 6 852 841 38 | Gtalk: jmwebaze | skype: mwebazej | URL: www.astro.rug.nl/~jmwebaze /* Life runs on code */*
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