Creating Linked Lists in Python

[Aaron Brady]

On Mar 21, 10:47 am, grocery_stocker <cdal... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 21, 6:38 am, Tim Chase <python.l... at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
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> > > For example, this means that there can be a start node supposedly.
> > > Having a value of 0. It is pointing to node 1 with the value of "a"
> > > and to node 2 with the value of "b". Trying to make something like an
> > > NFA. Where id be changing regular expressions to NFAs.
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> > John has already pointed out the preconception problems of
> > "linked list".
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> > In the past, I've done NFA with a state machine:
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> > You may have to carry around extra information regarding your
> > state, and tweak accordingly.  Instead of tuples of (newstate,
> > transition_function), you could just use transition functions
> > that return the new state, or None if they're not satisfied.
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> > You then simply maintain your current state, and then test your
> > incoming stream of tokens/data against your transition function
> > to see if you can transition to the resulting state.  Depending
> > on whether you need back-tracking, you'll want to gather all the
> > possible results, or otherwise may just settle for the first
> > available transition to a new state.
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> And if you don't mind me asking. How do you invoke lambda from
> transitions?

I think you are looking at a composite or a piece-wise function.
'numpy' has those.