On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/09/2011 10:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Except for people who needed dicts with tens of millions of items. > > who should be using a proper DBMS in any case.
Not necessarily. "Database" usually implies disk-based and relational, features that may well be quite superfluous; and a pure-memory database with no relational facilities... is basically a dict. So why not use one? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
