python STL?

[Dave Brueck]

> being recently introduced to the joys of programming in a powerful 
> dynamic language (go snake!) I periodically rethink which parts of C++ I 
> still miss. One thing I really enjoy is the generics of C++ - i think 
> they are the single strong benefit of a strongly typed system. I was 
> wondering about the possibility of implementing STL-like algorithms in 
> Python and the one thing that I cannot think of doing without a kludge 
> is the object comparsion that so much of STL relies on, which in turn
> relies on types and function(<) overloading. Is there a way to implement 
> something similar in python (short of multimethods?). How does the 
> python dictionary object allow arbitrary key types? Is in internally 
> using the references' addresses to impose the tree ordering?
> thanks,
> max.

Hi Max,

Could you give a more specific example of what you miss?

-Dave