Another Python rookie trying to port to C/C++ question.

[Brian Quinlan]

> Well, since I'm not worried about "flexible", have my doubts about the
> "much slower" part,

Your implementation is O(n) with the number of entries while the Python
implementation is O(log(n)). If n is small then your implementation
might be acceptably fast. Can't you just use the STL hash_map template
class?

Cheers,
Brian