Hi Björn, "BJörn Lindqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Karsten Heymann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> summed_up={} >> for user,vote in pairs: >> if summed_up.has_key(user): >> summed_up[user]+=vote >> else: >> summed_up[user]=vote > > You'll save even more by using: > > if user in summed_up: > > instead of has_key.
You're right, then it goes down to 1.5s (compared to 0.9 for the pure list version). Pythons dictionaries are really great :-) Yours Karsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list