> > Call me dense, but how does one do this in Python - which doesn't have > pointers? Dictionaries with dictionaries within dictionaries... (with > each letter as the key and the its children as values) is going to be > extremely space inefficient, right?
Isn't *everything* in python essentially a pointer? Dictionaries with dictionaries within dictionaries... My gut feeling (which means I have not measured it, so I don't actually know) is that it would not be space inefficient. Perhaps someone who knows more about this will speak up? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
