"Dinesh B Vadhia" <dineshbvad...@hotmail.com> wrote
Say, you have a dictionary of integers, are the integers stored in a compressed integer format or as integers ie. are integers encoded before being stored in the dictionary and then decoded when read?
I can't think of any reason to compress them, I imagine they are stored as integers. But given the way Python handlers integers with arbitrarily long numbers etc it may well be more complex than a simple integer (ie 4 byte number). But any form of compression would be likely to hit performamce so I doubt that they would be compressed.
Is there anything that made you think they might be? HTH -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
