Jan. 12, 2004
1:15 p.m.
From: Raymond Hettinger
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 think the "fast implementation" issue has triggered people's comments, rather than the "higher level tools" one. For the record, I'm +1 on the idea (as far as "higher level tools" goes). I'm not too bothered, in practice, how efficient the implementation is, as long as it's not visibly slower than using lists/dicts directly :-) Paul.