compare range objects

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Sat Oct 22 08:51:32 EDT 2011


On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:32:44 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:42:16 -0700, SigmundV wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 21, 2:55 am, Yingjie Lan <lany... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> In simulation, one can use range objects to denote a discrete domain,
>>> and domain comparison could be very useful. Not just equality, but
>>> also things like if one domain is contained in another.
[...]
> If you need a data type to store large numeric domains, whether discrete
> or continuous, a tree of intervals storing the lower and upper bounds is
> probably the right solution.

And purely by coincidence, I came across this today:

http://docs.pylandro.com/pylandro-collections-range/0.1/tutorial.html

I haven't used the library yet, but it looks impressive.


-- 
Steven



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