Re: searching in list

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Date	2011-05-31 00:48 +1000
Subject	Re: searching in list
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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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

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Re: searching in list vino19 <vinograd19@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 06:50 -0700
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