Another Python rookie trying to port to C/C++ question.

[Don Bruder]

In article <8yoc1wwt.fsf at python.net>,
 Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:

> Don Bruder <dakidd at sonic.net> writes:
> 
> [rewriting a Python program in C/C++]
> > Something like this C construct:
> >
> > struct DictStruct
> >    {
> >       char    *KeyArray[<somenumber>];
> >       ValType ValArray[<somenumber>];
> >    }
> >
> [...]
> > Similarly, would something like:
> >
> > struct DictStruct
> >    {
> >       char Key[25];
> >       ValType Value;
> >       DictStruct *PrevDictEntry;
> >       DictStruct *NextDictEntry;
> >    }
> >
> > [...] end up behaving at least reasonably like a Python "dict"? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Except that it would be less flexible, *much* slower, and
> probably much more buggy.
> 
> Thomas

Well, since I'm not worried about "flexible", have my doubts about the 
"much slower" part, and have no reason to believe that choice of 
language automatically makes a routine buggy, I'll go with the tenative 
plan I had. Seems you're confirming that I'm understanding things 
properly when it comes to "This is what a dict is, and here's how it 
works." Now to put finishing touches on my understanding of exactly what 
goes on inside that "black box" that is the "dict" 
class/type/whatever-it-is-you-Python-types-like-to-call-such-things, and 
make some working code out of it...

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