A Standard

[Luis]

STL, is not just a class interface but a library of interesting and very
useful (template) functions.  It is an interface that people are used to and
it is a very complete interface.  Is this really a battle of micro verse
macro where because you can break something down into tiny bits and do it
that way you automatically should?

The fact of the matter is, when I crossover to python I need to be reminded
what the interfaces are for list, maps, etc because I am used to a c++ set
of interfaces.  Yes, that does mean I'm not a full time python programmer.
Try finding a python programming position in El Paso.

Regardless, it seems the majority is against me on this point, but wouldn't
you say that it might at least be useful as a free library out there for
python??

Luis.


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Andrew Koenig wrote:

> What I see in this description is that the Python notion of "sequence 
> types" is decidedly non-sequential, because __getitem__ really takes 
> an arbitrary
> index as input.  So what Python calls a "sequence type" is closest to
> the
> C++ notion of a random-access iterator, except that you cannot offset
> such an iterator by an integer to obtain a new iterator.
> 
> Such differences can have surprisingly profound effects on programs.

Sure, but that doesn't mean that Python doesn't have the concept of an
abstract interface simply because its model for collections (sequence types,
mapping types) is different than STL's.

It's not surprising that Python's approach to sequence types is more dynamic
and less restrictive than C++'s STL approach, since Python is more dynamic
and less restrictive than C++.

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