Lists, tuples and memory.

[Terry Reedy]

"Peter Otten" <__peter__ at web.de> wrote in message
news:cd936h$akf$06$1 at news.t-online.com...
> 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.

My impression was that it was based on the dict code, but without reading
the source, I don't really know.

TJR