Casey Hawthorne wrote: > For Large Dictionaries Could One Use Separate Dictionaries Where Each > Dictionary Covers an Interval of the Input Range?
One Could, But Why? :-) You wouldn't see any performance improvements. Looking up a key in a dictionary is done in constant-time, i.e. it doesn't matter how large the dictionary is. Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list