Convert string to command..

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Abandoned wrote:

> On Oct 18, 6:35 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
>> Abandoned wrote:
>> > On Oct 18, 6:14 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
>> >> Abandoned wrote:
>> >> > Thanks you all answer..
>> >> > But "eval" is very slow at very big dictionary {2:3,4:5,6:19....}
>> >> > (100.000 elements)
>> >> > Is there any easy alternative ?
>>
>> >> How big? How slow? For me, a 10000-element list takes  0.04 seconds to
>> >> be parsed. Which I find fast.
>>
>> >> Diez
>>
>> > 173.000 dict elements and it tooks 2.2 seconds this very big time for
>> > my project
>>
>> Where does the data come from?
>>
>> Diez
> 
> Data come from database..
> I want to cache to speed up my system and i save the dictionary to
> database for speed up but eval is very slow for do this.
> Not: 2.2 second only eval operation.

Does the dictionary change often?

And you should store a pickle to the database then. Besides, making a
database-query of that size (after all, we're talking a few megs here) will
take a while as well - so are you SURE the 2.2 seconds are a problem? Or is
it just that you think they are?

Diez