On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/5/2009 4:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>> Tree is better than Graph >>> >>> not having Tree and Graph package in the standard library force most >>> people to find List-based solution. >> >> If you have to be *forced* to use a list-based solution, that's a good >> sign that a list is *not* the right tool for the job. > > Sorry for putting too much emphasis on the "forced", that wasn't my > intention. I was mentioning that often simple problems appeared more complex > because the person was thinking in a higher level data structure than is > necessary. "forced" in that sentence means to let people to think a little > bit harder with list/dict before deciding that they are unsuitable and > moving to a tree or a graph.
In any event, I think we can agree that for some tasks (I would say many) a graph or tree is the most suitable data structure. To me, that says that we need to be having a discussion about whether to include those tools in the standard library, and how best to do so if that's the decision. Would you agree? Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
