> > You can download the list of keys from here, it's 43M gzipped: > > http://www.sendspace.com/file/9530i7 > > > > and see it take about 45 minutes with this: > > > > $ cat cache-keys.py > > #!/usr/bin/python > > v = {} > > for line in open('keys.txt'): > > v[long(line.strip())] = True > > > > > It takes about 20 seconds for me. It's possible it's related to > int/long > unification - try using Python 2.5. If you can't switch to 2.5, try > using string keys instead of longs.
Yes, this was it. It ran *very* fast on Python v2.5. Terribly on v2.4, v2.3. (I thought I had already evaluated v2.5 but I see now that the server With 2.5 on it invokes 2.3 for 'python'.) Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
