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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.