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Op 09-04-16 om 16:41 schreef Chris Angelico:

> 
> In this case, you're likely to end up with large branches of your tree
> that have the same prefix. (And if you don't, your iterations are all
> going to end early anyway, so the comparison is cheap.) A data
> structure that takes this into account will out-perform the naive
> comparison model every time. In fact, a simple dict will probably
> out-perform your tree;

So? I need a structure that can easily give me an answer to the
following: Given key1 and key2 what are the the keys between them
with their corresponding values. As long as a dict can't provide
me with that answer, it doesn't matter that it will out perform
lookups in my trees.

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Antoon Pardon