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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 00:48:49 +1000
Subject: Re: searching in list
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On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:50 PM, vino19 <vinograd19@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> It seems that dictionary is a sorted list of tuples, so the procedure of searching an element is quite quick.

Not sorted - it's hashed, so it's even faster. Yep, sounds like a
dictionary is everything you want!

Chris Angelico