hat-trie 0.1

hat-trie

HAT-Trie structure for Python (2.x and 3.x).

This package is a Python wrapper for hat-trie C library.

Installation

pip install hat-trie

Note that it currently requires Cython to build.

Usage

Create a new trie:

>>> from hat_trie import Trie
>>> trie = Trie()

trie variable is a dict-like object that support unicode keys and integer values and stores them efficiently.

Currently implemented methods are:

• __getitem__()

• __setitem__()

• __contains__()

• __len__()

• setdefault()

• keys()

• iterkeys()

Other methods are not implemented.

Performance

Performance is measured for hat_trie.Trie against Python’s dict with 100k unique unicode words (English and Russian) as keys and ‘1’ numbers as values.

Benchmark results for Python 3.3 (intel i5 1.8GHz, “1.000M ops/sec” == “1 000 000 operations per second”):

dict __getitem__ (hits)      6.874M ops/sec
trie __getitem__ (hits)      3.754M ops/sec
dict __contains__ (hits)     7.035M ops/sec
trie __contains__ (hits)     3.772M ops/sec
dict __contains__ (misses)   5.356M ops/sec
trie __contains__ (misses)   3.364M ops/sec
dict __len__                 785958.286 ops/sec
trie __len__                 574164.704 ops/sec
dict __setitem__ (updates)   6.830M ops/sec
trie __setitem__ (updates)   3.472M ops/sec
dict __setitem__ (inserts)   6.774M ops/sec
trie __setitem__ (inserts)   2.460M ops/sec
dict setdefault (updates)    3.522M ops/sec
trie setdefault (updates)    2.680M ops/sec
dict setdefault (inserts)    4.062M ops/sec
trie setdefault (inserts)    1.866M ops/sec
dict keys()                  189.564 ops/sec
trie keys()                  16.067 ops/sec

HAT-Trie is about 1.5x faster that datrie on all supported operations; it also supports fast inserts unlike datrie. On the other hand, datrie has more features (e.g. better iteration support and richer API); datrie is also more memory efficient.

Contributing

Development happens at github:

• https://github.com/kmike/hat-trie

Feel free to submit ideas, bugs, pull requests or regular patches.

$ tox

$ tox -c bench.ini

License

Licensed under MIT License.