Brian Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is obviously the least efficient manner to do this as I'll always > be iterating over the entire 'strs'. I know I could make a binary tree > out of 'strs' but that's a little more work that don't have time to do > today. I know there should be something out there if I just ask nicely > enough.
This may be overkill but it's the right approach in principle: http://osteele.com/software/python/fsa/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list