[Tutor] calling a variable name
Ricardo Aráoz
ricaraoz at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 14:37:43 CEST 2007
Kent Johnson wrote:
> Bryan Fodness wrote:
>> Thank you. This works well. I am still trying to figure out the pros
>> and cons of using an array, dictionary or list.
>
> Array is specialized, you probably want list or dict.
>
> Use list when you want a sequence of items indexed by sequential integers.
> Lists
> - preserve order
> - are fast for indexed lookup
> - are relatively slow (O(n)) for adding, deleting and searching (though
> for small lists this should not be a consideration)
Are you sure they take O(n) for adding? I would have thought it would
take O(1).
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