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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 19:09:44 +0530
Subject: Re: Best data structure for DFS on large graphs
From: Miheer Dewaskar <miheer.dew@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> wrote:
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> Miheer Dewaskar, 03.07.2012 13:11:
> > I am not sure,but if there are large number of states Dictionaries wont
> > help much right?
>
> Dicts are fast for lookup, not for searching.
>
What do you mean by searching in the context of Dicts?

> > Anyway, does python have a built-in BST like data-structure ?
>
> It has lists and bisect:
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/bisect.html

But insertion and deletion in a list is o(n):

http://wiki.python.org/moin/TimeComplexity/#list




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Miheer Dewaskar