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you could always use a DBM file (AnyDBM) standard modules. they behave just like a hash, are dead easy to use and fast. They are simple key->value databases stored on disk. I used one with 250,000 price references once and was dead fast. hash version was very slow to load. updating with new CSVs would be easy too.
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