"Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm writing a program to analyse the profiles of the 15500 users
> though about creating say 10 files to start off with that contained > dictionaries of userid to field value. That way I'm dealing with 10 > to > 50 files instead of 15500. To be honest, with that numbers you will be better using a database. Both for storage and search speed but also for the analysis. SQL is designed for this kind of job. You can read a shortish intro to using databases in my tutorial. It uses SqlLite but is easily adapted to any database engine. Even if your ISP doesn't support installed databases I would still consider downloading your data into a local database for the analysis job and writing HTML import/export functions to deal with administering the web site. But if you can put a database on the web site then so much the better. It will almost certainly simplify your code and improve performance and/or resource usage. Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
