#!/usr/local/bin/python2 from collections import OrderedDict class C(object): def __init__(self, v=0): self.name = v l = [C(), C(1), C(2), C(3), C(4), C(5), C(6), C(7), C(8), C(9)] for i in xrange(20000): m = {j.name: j for j in l} n = [j.name for j in l] c = [j for j in l] print m, n, c