Questions on Using Python to Teach Data Structures and Algorithms

[Brendon Towle]

Some of your Lisp translations are subtly off...


> Date: 28 Sep 2006 02:49:50 -0700
> From: "sturlamolden" <sturlamolden at yahoo.no>
> Subject: Re: Questions on Using Python to Teach Data Structures and
> 	Algorithms
> To: python-list at python.org
>
> If you want to make a chained structure, then perhaps you know LISP?
> This is what the basic machinery of LISP looks like in Python:
>
> def cons(a,b)
>    return [a,b]

should be:
     return [a].extend(b)

> def car(structure)
>    return structure[0]
>
> def cdr(structure)
>    return structure[1]

should be:
     return structure[1:]

B.

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