Lists, tuples and memory.

[Christopher T King]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Peter Otten wrote:

> Christopher T King wrote:
> 
> > Try using a set instead of a dictionary. You should get the good access
> > time of dictionaries with nearly the low memory usage of a list:
> 
> sets.Set() holds its data in a dict. I fear the same goes for 2.4's builtin
> set type which is coded in C but also built on top of dict.

Ick.  I thought part of the reason Set was created (aside from enabling 
set operations) was to improve on the dict() storage method.