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[Erik Max Francis]

> Luis Cortes wrote:

>  I have long been playing the idea ( and I'm sure that others have
> too -- of
>  porting the STL library from C++ completely re-written in python.  I
>  have had great success in doing this with the the vector class with
> little
>  problem (although it did take me several iterations).  I believe it
>  would be trivial to finish the rest of the lib.  My question would
> be,
>  won't this be better than making our own version of set, list,
> vector,
>  map, etc.???

Well, Python 2.3 comes with builtin sets, lists, and maps (called
dictionaries), so right out of the gate you're considering duplicating
things.  If, as you say, reimplementing C++SL-like constructs in Python
is "trivial" (which is probably not a huge exaggeration, since Python
comes with the intrusive parts already built in), what is the benefit in
doing so?

> This way, won't C++ programmers have an easier time crossing over?

Perhaps, but I don't think that's a very strong motivation for adding
something to Python.

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