Caching Strategies/Database question

[Alex Martelli]

"Brian Kelley" <kelley at bioreason.com> wrote in message
news:3AE84904.C69D88C0 at bioreason.com...
> I am using a dictionary to hold
>
> {string:[list of integers]}
>
> key: values
>
> The dictionary is randomly accessed to add an integer to the list
> referenced by the string.

Just on the off-chance... are the integers in some restricted range
and their order in the list irrelevant?  If so, you may be able to
save a bundle by coding the list of integers as a bitset -- not
really Python-related, but sometimes still very useful.


Alex