[Tutor] managing memory large dictionaries in python

[Steven D'Aprano]

On 17/10/12 12:30, Dwight Hutto wrote:

> My inexperienced advice would be to begin with the storage areas
> available. I would begin by eliminating certain things such as:
>
> x = {'one_entry' : 1}
>
> into
>
> x = {'one_entry':1}


Those two entries are exactly the same. The presence of absence of
spaces, or newlines, in the dict literal makes no difference to the
amount of memory that the dict will use.



-- 
Steven