speeding up dictionary creation

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, idfx wrote:

> I had a problem a while ago kinda like this.  My solution was also
> cPickle.  I also tweaked some extra speed sometimes by using the
> dictionary.keys() function, which returns a list, which you can play
> with a lot faster.  This also makes incremental updates easier, cuz you
> can just search the keyslist for existing data and only have to
> actually read and parse and process the part that you have to change...
> I got maybe a full 1/3 better speed sometimes, than using the straight
> cPickled dictionary, but I dunno if this is at all applicable to your
> situation, because my working environment was odd.

Hmmmmm....sounded like one of the db module would suite you better.
Did you try something like "gdbm", "dbm" or "bsddb"?

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