Terry Reedy wrote: > On 4/14/2011 12:55 PM, Peter Otten wrote: > >> I don't expect that it matters much, but you don't need to sort your data >> if you use a dictionary anyway: > > Which means that one can build the dict line by line, as each is read, > instead of reading the entire file into memory. So it does matter for > intermediate memory use.
Yes, sorry, that was a bit too much handwaving. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list