Hi Dave!
You were absolutely right.
I don't want to iterate the entire dict to get me the key/values
Let us say this dict would have 20.000 entries, but I want only those
with "Aa" to be grabed.
Those starting with these 2 letters would be only 5 or 6 then it would
take a lot of time.
In which way would you prefer to store the data, and which functions or
methods would you use effectively to accomplish this task ?
I deeply apologize of not defining the question more defined. English is
not my mother tongue.
I'll do my best next time.
Thanks
Tamer
On 11.12.2013 06:47, Dave Angel wrote:
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:02:20 +0200, Tamer Higazi
<tamerito...@arcor.de> wrote:
Is there a way to get dict by search terms without iterating the
entire
dictionary ?!
I want to grab the dict's key and values started with 'Ar'...
Your wording is so ambiguous that each respondent has guessed
differently.
I'm guessing that you want all key/value pairs for which the key
begins with the two letters 'Ar' I'm guessing further that your
objection to iterating the entire dictionary is not code size but
performance.
If both assumptions are valid then I'll point out that a dict has no
ordering to it. If you want an approach that doesn't iterate over the
entire structure you'll need to store the data differently. For
example if you stored all the keys in a sorted list you could use bisect.
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