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On 11/12/2013 17:19, Travis Griggs wrote:
>
> On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:31 AM, rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> The classic data structure for this is the trie:
>> General idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie
>> In python:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11015320/how-to-create-a-trie-in-python/
>
> My thoughts exactly!
>
> If you wade through the comments there, someone has done a more-than-naive implementation here:
>
> https://github.com/kmike/marisa-trie
>
> The write up makes it look pretty favorable as well for performance (scroll 2/3s down to the Benchmarks section).
>

http://kmike.ru/python-data-structures/ from the author of the above is 
well worth a read.

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Mark Lawrence