--- On Wed, 1/27/10, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "Python lists implement a pretty useless data structure" > > It's very difficult for ideas to gain traction when they > contain such > useless, and obviously wrong, rhetoric. There's an > enormous body of > code out there that begs to disagree with this assertion. >
The statement was meant 99% tongue in cheek. Like probably 99.99% of Python programmers, I use lists all the time; that's why I want them to be more versatile. There's also a 1% element of truth to the statement. To the extent that people are arguing for alternative data structures to list, particularly deque, I wonder if there actually is some merit in discouraging the use of lists in favor of better alternatives. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
