labblouin.memEfficient module

class labblouin.memEfficient.memEfficientDictionary(*args, **kwds)

Bases: _abcoll.MutableMapping

A memory-efficient alternative to the built-in Python dictionary with a trade-off for (insertion) performance. Based on recipe found by Raymond Hettinger (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578375-proof-of-concept-for-a-more-space-efficient -faster/).

clear()

Clear the data structure.

get(key, default=None)

items()

iteritems()

iterkeys()

itervalues()

keys()

popitem()

values()