Trees

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jan 19 21:46:01 EST 2015


On 20/01/2015 00:49, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Zachary Gilmartin
> <zacharygilmartin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why aren't there trees in the python standard library?
>
> Trees are kind of specialized datastructures; no one type of tree
> solves all tree-related problems suitably well.
>
> I think probably the most common need for a tree is implementing a
> cache, but most times you're tempted to sort inside a loop you're
> better off with a tree.
>
> I've put some time into python trees; most of them are on pypi and at:
> http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/datastructures/
> and:
> http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/python-tree-and-heap-comparison/
>
> HTH
>

I don't know if you've seen this http://kmike.ru/python-data-structures/ 
but maybe of interest.

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence




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