I'm building a dictionary from a list with ~ 1M records. Each record in the list is itself a list. Each record in the list has a line number, (index 0) which I wish to use as a dictionary key.
The problem: It is possible for two different records in the list to share this line number. If they do, I want to append the record to the value in the dictionary. The obvious (lazy) method of searching for doubled lines requires building and parsing a key list for every record. There must be a better way! dict = {} for record in list if record[0] in dict.keys(): dict[ record[0] ].append( record ) else: dict[ record[0] ] = [record] Once you get ~ 80,000 records it starts slowing down pretty badly (I would too ...). Here's hoping there is a really fast, pythonic way of doing this!
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