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Mon Dec 22 22:23:12 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-December/084539.html

On Dec 22, 2008, at 4:07 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> What kinds of objects are you storing in your dictionary ? Python
> instances, strings, integers ?

Answered in a previous message:

On Dec 20, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Mike Coleman wrote:
> The dict keys were all uppercase alpha strings of length 7.  I don't
> have access at the moment, but maybe something like 10-100M of them
> (not sure how redundant the set is).  The values are all lists of
> pairs, where each pair is a (string, int).  The pair strings are of
> length around 30, and drawn from a "small" fixed set of around 60K
> strings ().  As mentioned previously, I think the ints are drawn
> pretty uniformly from something like range(10000).  The length of the
> lists depends on the redundancy of the key set, but I think there are
> around 100-200M pairs total, for the entire dict.
>
> (If you're curious about the application domain, see 'http://greylag.org 
> '.)

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