[Tutor] lists [Twisted Linked Lists]

[Victor R. Cardona]

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 07:02:00PM -0700, Danny Yoo wrote:
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> The key is to understand that a linked list only requires a way of
> "referring" to another element.  As long as we can conceptually refer to
> an element, we have enough machinery to build linked lists, and being able
> to refer to an list item by index is just enough to get things rolling:

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> So it's possible to do linked lists even without pointers.  The code above
> doesn't use the trick that Alan mentioned, but it shouldn't be hard to
> change it to optimize finding a new node to cons()truct.
=20
My mistake. Although, I still can't think of a reason why you would want
to go out of your way to implement a linked list in Python.

Thanks,
Victor

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