Dear python experts, I use a huge python dictionary where the values are lists of that dictionary's keys (yes, a graph). Each key is thus referenced several times.
As the keys are rather large objects, I would like to save memory by re-using key objects wherever possible, instead of having several equal objects in memory. There does not seem to be a way to retrieve the original key from a python dictionary. Is there a technical reason for this? (Other than that such functionality was not considered to be useful enough.) What I will probably do now is store (key, real_value) as values in my dictionary. Is there a better solution? thanks, Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list