Trees

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Mon Jan 19 18:08:25 EST 2015


Zachary Gilmartin wrote:

> Why aren't there trees in the python standard library?

Possibly because they aren't needed? Under what circumstances would you use
a tree instead of a list or a dict or combination of both?

That's not a rhetorical question. I am genuinely curious, what task do you
have that you think must be solved by a tree?

Also, what sort of tree? Binary tree? Binary search tree? Red/black tree?
AVL tree? Splay tree? B-tree? T-tree? Scapegoat tree? General n-ary tree?
Every possible type of tree yet invented?



-- 
Steven




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