Hashed lookups for tabular data

[Joseph L. Casale]

> Why not take a look at pandas as see if there's anything there you could
> use?  Excellent docs here http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/
> and the mailing list is available at gmane.comp.python.pydata amongst
> other places.

Mark,
Actually it was the first thing that came to mind. I did want to avoid another
dependency unless it was for a good reason and I suspect anything from that
project would merit it one. I have been looking for a reason to use it for a
project and this might be it. I probably wont be up to speed in time but I
will give it a look.

Thanks,
jlc