Hi Peter!
I got the message....
I know that I could have used a database. I am using for a good reason
the ZODB Database.
I am making things in the ZODB Database persistent, I don't like to
distribute among machines.
Making use of sqlite, won't give me the possibility to scale as the
amount of data and requests are high.
I am thinking of scalability. Of course I could use the MongoDB as well.
But this is from my side for THESE KIND of things not desired.
I am thinking of making Files through objects in the ZODB Database
persistent, and relational databases on long time make me sick....
I will workout a bselect sollution for my problem!
Thanks for your support.
Tamer
On 11.12.2013 14:10, Peter Otten wrote:
Tamer Higazi wrote:
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 ?
Well, Dave already gave one approach:
[Dave Angel]
For example if you stored all the keys in a sorted list you could use
bisect.
See also http://docs.python.org/dev/library/bisect.html
Another option would be to use a database. Assuming the table 'lookup' has
two columns 'key' and 'value' you'd get the matching rows with
select key, value from lookup where key like 'Aa%';
A lightweight database that comes with Python is sqlite:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/sqlite3.html
http://www.sqlite.org/
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