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On 01/19/2015 04:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Zachary Gilmartin wrote:
> 
>> Why aren't there trees in the python standard library?
> 
> Possibly because they aren't needed? Under what circumstances would you use
> a tree instead of a list or a dict or combination of both?
> 
> That's not a rhetorical question. I am genuinely curious, what task do you
> have that you think must be solved by a tree?
> 
> Also, what sort of tree? Binary tree? Binary search tree? Red/black tree?
> AVL tree? Splay tree? B-tree? T-tree? Scapegoat tree? General n-ary tree?
> Every possible type of tree yet invented?

Don't forget left-child,right-sibling trees.

As I go through your list of trees, I can't find any tree type that
cannot be easily and efficiently constructed with lists, possibly with
dicts.

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Trees Zachary Gilmartin <zacharygilmartin@gmail.com> - 2015-01-19 17:06 -0500
  Re: Trees Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-20 10:08 +1100
    Re: Trees Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-01-19 16:19 -0700
    Re: Trees Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2015-01-19 15:52 -0800
    Re: Trees Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-01-19 18:00 -0600
    Re: Trees Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole@gmail.com> - 2015-01-20 09:23 +0000
    Re: Trees Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-20 10:02 -0800

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