Sorted list as an alternative to dictionary for when you only needkeys?

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

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Available as sets.Set in 2.3, and the builtin set (and frozenset) in
2.4.

Tim Delaney 

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[mailto:python-list-bounces+tdelaney=avaya.com at python.org] On Behalf Of
Daniel Eloff
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Subject: Sorted list as an alternative to dictionary for when you only
needkeys?



I've used a dictionary with None values before when I've needed a
container with fast lookup by value. Just insert all the values as keys.

 

But this is not optimal at all. Better would be a python list that is
sorted and uses a binary search algo to find values. Now it's not that
much work to write a wrapper class for list that does this, but is there
maybe not such a thing already in Python (surely it's very common, it's
like a C++ STL set or a .NET sorted list, or a...). Or at least a
wrapper already written in Python.

 

I think this really should be a data structure added to the language, if
it isn't already.

 

-Dan

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