Efficient searching through objects

2009-02-26 Thread sert
I have written a program that reads data and updates the records for some people. They are represented by objects, and I need to read the data from a file, look the person up and then update his record. I have implemented this by creating a list with all the people's names and another list

Re: Efficient searching through objects

2009-02-26 Thread sert
bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote in news:37632421-5475-4859-be83-07ae2eca1...@r4g2000yqa.googlegro ups.com: Try using a dict instead, where keys are the names and objects the values (it turns a linear search in a quick hash look up). . Then tell us the performance changes. It halved the

Is psyco available for python 2.6?

2008-10-30 Thread sert
I used the windows installer for the latest version of psyco, which is labeled as compatible with 2.5, but it gives the following error: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. (check that the compiled extension 'C:\Python26\lib\site- packages\psyco\_psyco.pyd'

Plotting libraries recommendations

2008-10-14 Thread sert
I'm developing a circuit simulation application and will need to plot the output of my program. The output will not be functions, just a collection of numerical values of the dependent and independent variables. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Traceback not going all the way to the exception?

2008-10-09 Thread sert
I just got an exception and the traceback wouldn't go all the way to the statement that threw the exception. I found that out by using the debugger. Contrast the traceback: http://tinyurl.com/5xglde with the debugger output (notice the arrow pointing to the last statement the traceback

Re: Traceback not going all the way to the exception?

2008-10-09 Thread sert
Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: You forgot to specify which version of Python on which computer system. It's on Python 2.6. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Traceback not going all the way to the exception?

2008-10-09 Thread sert
sert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's on Python 2.6. On Windows. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list