reversing a dictionary (newbie)

[David Bolen]

Steve Purcell <stephen_purcell at yahoo.com> writes:

> Expect total memory usage to be triple that of 'dict' alone towards the end
> of the loop, because of the 'items()' call.

Of course, "triple that of 'dict' alone" covers the object references
in the dictionary, but not triple the overall object space, since both
the items() list and the new dictionary just have references to the
same objects.  So you'll only have space allocated for the actual word
strings themselves once in the application.

Which can make this much less overhead than might otherwise be
considered at first glance.

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