Best data structure for DFS on large graphs

[Miheer Dewaskar]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
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> Miheer Dewaskar, 03.07.2012 13:11:
> > I am not sure,but if there are large number of states Dictionaries wont
> > help much right?
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> Dicts are fast for lookup, not for searching.
>
What do you mean by searching in the context of Dicts?

> > Anyway, does python have a built-in BST like data-structure ?
>
> It has lists and bisect:
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> http://docs.python.org/library/bisect.html

But insertion and deletion in a list is o(n):

http://wiki.python.org/moin/TimeComplexity/#list




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Miheer Dewaskar