Self reordering list in Python

[Thomas Guettler]

Am Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:14:09 +0200 schrieb Laszlo Zsolt Nagy:

> 
>   Hello,
> 
> Do you know how to implement a really efficient self reordering list in 
> Python? (List with a maximum length. When an item is processed, it 
> becomes the first element in the list.) I would like to use this for 
> caching of rendered images. Of course I could implement this in pure 
> Python, I just wonder if there is a faster implementation that uses some 
> cool feature of the standard library. (Maybe a C implementation could be 
> added to the collections module?)

Hi,

Maybe the bisect module is what you need:

"This module provides support for maintaining a list in sorted order
without having to sort the list after each insertion."

 HTH,
   Thomas

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