Dinesh B Vadhia 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?
Integer objects are not special cased in dictionaries. They are stored as normal int/long objects. Dictionaries do not use any kind of compression in Python. Stefan _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
