Best way to handle large lists?

[Hari Sekhon]

Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Chaz Ginger wrote:
>
>   
>> What would sets do for me over lists?
>>     
>
> It's faster to tell whether something is in a set or dict than in a list
> (for some minimum size).
>
> Jeremy
>
>   
That is surprising since I read on this list recently that lists were 
faster than dicts and that variables stored in lists were faster 
referenced/used. It was one reason that was cited as to why local vars 
are better than global vars. The guy actually did a looping test and 
timed it to show the speed difference.

Can anybody please step in and correct us?

-h

Hari Sekhon
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