"Duncan Booth" <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote in message > In C Python, all dictionaries have an initial size of 8 elements. There is > no way to override this (except recompiling!) In you initialize a dict from a list of, say, 1000 (key,value) pairs, does it really disregard list size? at least after first 2/3rds fillup? Terry