Re: optimizing large dictionaries

2009-01-16 Thread Matthias Julius
Per Freem writes: > the only 'twist' is that my elt is an instance of a class (MyClass) > with 3 fields, all numeric. the class is hashable, and so > my_dict[elt] works well. the __repr__ and __hash__ methods of my > class simply return str() representation of self, which just calls __str__().

Re: Is numeric keys of Python's dictionary automatically sorted?

2007-03-08 Thread Matthias Julius
"John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am coding a radix sort in python and I think that Python's dictionary may > be a choice for bucket. > > The only problem is that dictionary is a mapping without order. But I just > found that if the keys are numeric, the keys themselves are ordered in the

Re: How to Read Bytes from a file

2007-03-06 Thread Matthias Julius
"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > En Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:22:36 -0300, Bart Ogryczak > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> On Mar 1, 7:36 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Thanks Bart. That's perfect. The other suggestion was to precompute >>> count1 for all