[Python-ideas] Trie ABC?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Andrew Barnert writes:

 > First, [trie is] not an algorithm like sort, it's a data structure
 > like set.

I don't see that that distinction matters here.  I'm simply using
timsort as the platinum standard of quality of implementation. :-)

The question is "does somebody need multiple implementations?"  The
answer is evidently "yes":

 > So, could we get away with a single trie? No…

/me can go back to GSoC mentoring now.