[wxPython-users] localization, is it slow ?

[Frank Niessink]

Hi Stef,

2007/12/2, Stef Mientki <s.mientki at ru.nl>:
> Although I don't know anything of the inside of Python,
> I can't image that a lookup of a 800 character string in a dictionary is
> fast,
> but maybe I'm missing some essential insight.

Actually, Python dictionaries are *very* fast. See attached script.
Looking up values in a dictionary of 10000 strings, with keys and
values that have a random length between 3 and 1000 characters, takes
0.3 microseconds per lookup on my computer. (I hope I did the math
right ;-)

Cheers, Frank
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