> There are certainly cases where the speedup is tremendous - think of a > single integer in the first criteria - but then the overall performance > depends on the real-live queries. If lot's of wildcards are used, you > might end up slower if the tree-walk takes more time than the > C-implemented list-iteration will cost you.
hopefully, won't need to do this then. i'll test the filter approach tonight. generally speaking, going to be mostly wildcards most of the time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
