Re: Match items in large list

2009-02-15 Thread Fisherking
Thank you all for your answers! I must say I'm really impressed by the willing to help and the quick responses in this group (since it is my first post)! I solved the problem using SQL-queries. I added a id, the same for each item in a chain (two or more similar posts) and just updated the databas

Match items in large list

2009-02-12 Thread Fisherking
Hi, I hope you can help me with this optimizing problem! I have a large list of dictionaries (about 250 000 of them). Two or more of these dictionaries contains the same data (not more than five or six of them per item) e.g. [{'a':1,'b':'2','c':3} , {'d': 4,'e':'5','f':6},{'a':1,'b':'2','c':3} , {