Searching for different Python data types

Language: Python 3.7.2

System: Win10 Ver. 10.0.17763

Subject: 004.01 search for different Python data types
Recently, when doing the case of data search and comparison, we found that a large number of data in search and comparison is very slow, too slow to accept. What I want is' immediate 'results, but the results are to wait for several hours, dizzy! Although Python is certainly not comparable to C or Assembly language, we still need to find a way to improve the speed. The following are various methods and time needed to find 10000 data in 10000 data. Although the last method index_list_sort() is much faster, I still don't think it's fast enough. Moreover, it's only integer search. What if it's a string? What if it's a substring? If you have a better way, please also prompt, thank you!

Result:

0:00:04.734338 : index_sequence
0:00:01.139984 : index_list
0:00:00.330116 : index_np
0:00:00.233343 : index_np_sort
0:00:00.223401 : index_dict
0:00:00.213462 : index_set
0:00:00.007977 : index_list_sort

Code:

Code:from datetime import datetime
import numpy as np
import bisect
import time
import random
import inspect
import copy

size        = 10000
value       = size-1
db          = random.sample(range(size), size)
db_sort     = copy.deepcopy(db)
db_sort.sort()
db_set      = set(db)
db_dict     = {db[i]:i for i in range(size)}
db_np       = np.array(db)
value       = [i for i in range(size)]

def call(func):
    # Call function and calculate execution time, then print duration and function name
    start_time = datetime.now()
    func()
    print(datetime.now() - start_time,':',func.__name__)

def do_something():
    # Do something here, it may get duration different when multi-loop method used
    for i in range(1000):
        pass

def index_sequence():
    # List unsort and just by Python without any method used or built-in function.
    for i in range(size):
        for j in range(size):
            if value[j] == db[i]:
                index = j
                do_something()
                break

def index_list():
    # Unsorted list, use list.index()
    for i in range(size):
        try:
            index = db.index(value[i])
        except:
            index = -1
        if index >= 0:
            do_something()
def index_np():
    # By using numpy and np(where)
    for i in range(size):
        result = np.where(db_np==value[i])
        if len(result[0])!=0:
            do_something()

def index_np_sort():
    # By using numpy and sorted numpy array
    for i in range(size):
        result = np.searchsorted(db_np, value[i])
        if result != size:
            do_something()

def index_list_sort():
    # By using bisect library
    for i in range(size):
        index = bisect.bisect_left(db, value[i])
        if index < size-1 and value[index]==db[index]:
            do_something()

def index_set():
    # Set serach
    for i in range(size):
        if value[i] in db_set:
            do_something()

def index_dict():
    # Dictionary search
    for i in range(size):
        try:
            index = db_dict[value[i]]
        except:
            index = -1
        if index >= 0:
            do_something()

Test execution time

call(index_sequence)
call(index_list)
call(index_np)
call(index_np_sort)
call(index_dict)
call(index_set)
call(index_list_sort)Copy code database search