On Mon, Jan 12, 2004, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
I am frankly surprised that so many here think that a collections module would be bad for the language. Go figure. It's not like these are new, untried ideas -- the goal was supposed be improving productivity by providing higher level tools. A fast underlying implementation was just icing on the cake.
I'm suspecting that most of the negativity came from the lack of use cases for bags. Let me suggest an alternate idea: in the past, some people have suggested a "data structures" module to give reference implementations of standard data structures and algorithms. This would be a tool aimed more at making it easy to learn computer science with Python than providing the highest-speed quirky implementations; the focus would be on documenting the code. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ A: No. Q: Is top-posting okay?