Python itself contains an implementation of this, which it uses for
attributes and variable names. Take a look at the builtin function
intern().
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:00:17PM -0500, Chris Mellon wrote:
I have an application that needs to store a log buffer of up hundreds
of thousands of lines, many of which may be identical. Does anyone
know of any implementations of string pooling I might be able to use
to cut the memory footprint for this down to something reasonable?
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Tim Lesher <tim@lesher.ws>
http://www.lesher.ws