Is 100,000 entries big for a dictionary?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <0p936.2528$Qb7.277261 at newsb.telia.net>,
Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at effbot.org> wrote:
>
>The implementation limit is currently one billion objects.

It occurs to me, in light of the earlier thread on "is", that the limit
is likely to hit even faster than that, depending on how id() is
implemented.  That is, a non-artificial program that tries creating a
billion entries in a hash table is going to have enough other objects
that the id() space will fill up.

Incidentally, I think you were insufficiently pedantic in that thread
when you suggested "id(a) == id(b)".  It really should be

import __builtin__
if __builtin__.id(a) == __builtin__.id(b):
    ....


;-)

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