Re: The fastest search

2006-10-22 Thread Fulvio
*** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan MSS. *** On Saturday 21 October 2006 19:09, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > So for searches that succeed, dicts are much faster than lists. Very precious advice. Thank you, indeed. The lesson was good :-) I'd only lik

Re: The fastest search

2006-10-21 Thread Gregor Horvath
Fulvio schrieb: > > Is there some trick to apply the best search in wise use of resources while > using the above said methods? > measure it: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-timeit.html Regarding your debugger question in the seperate thread I don't know since I am not using a debugger at a

Re: The fastest search

2006-10-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:41:04 +0800, Fulvio wrote: > I'm poor in knoweledge of python, sorry. What's the fastest result between : > > if item in alist: > do_something > > or > > if adictionay has_key(item): > do_something Let's find out. Searches that succeed: >>> import tim

The fastest search

2006-10-21 Thread Fulvio
*** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan MSS. *** Hello, I'm poor in knoweledge of python, sorry. What's the fastest result between : if item in alist: do_something or if adictionay has_key(item): do_something Is there some trick t