Large Dictionaries

Claudio Grondi claudio.grondi at freenet.de
Thu May 18 06:39:08 EDT 2006


Chris Foote wrote:
> Richie Hindle wrote:
>> [Chris]
>>> Has anyone written a fast hash module which is more optimal for
>>> large datasets ?
>>
>> PyJudy might be what you're looking for, though I've never used it:
>>
>>   http://www.dalkescientific.com/Python/PyJudy.html
>>
>> "Judy's key benefits are scalability, high performance, and memory
>> efficiency. A Judy array is extensible and can scale up to a very large
>> number of elements, bounded only by machine memory." ... "PyJudy arrays
>> are similar to Python dictionaries and sets."
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion Richie.  PyJudy works brilliantly :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
It seems, that there is no Microsoft Windows version of Judy available, 
so for this reason PyJudy won't work on Windows - am I right?

Claudio



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