python bijection

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 20:26:17 EST 2009


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Carl Banks <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 4, 12:46 pm, geremy condra <debat... at gmail.com> wrote:
> more common than full-blown graph package).
>> Sure, its a tree, which is also a graph. In this case it looks to
>> me more like a directed acyclic graph than anything, but its
>> pretty much just semantics since the interface is functionally
>> equivalent.
>
> I'd have to agree with Lie, yes a tree is a graph, but it's simply not
> an argument that Python community is grasping for graph structures.
> It's like arguing that the Python community could benefit from a
> quaternion type, because quaternions are actually heavily used in
> Python, because a scalar number is a quarternion.

Fair enough. I suspect that other examples could be provided
easily enough that I'm not going to fight over that one.

> Carl Banks
>
> (Would be +1 on a good graph implementation... just not because of
> ElementTree.)

I'd love it if you'd take a look at Graphine and see whether
it would meet the standard for a good graph implementation.

Geremy Condra



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