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On 20/01/2015 05:19, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>:
>
>> On 19/01/2015 22:06, Zachary Gilmartin wrote:
>>> Why aren't there trees in the python standard library?
>>
>> Probably because you'd never get agreement as to which specific tree
>> and which specific implementation was the most suitable for inclusion.
>
> Most programming languages provide one standard sorted mapping
> implementation.
>

I'd have thought it would be the standard library and not the language 
that provided a sorted mapping.  Are you also saying that this has to be 
implemented as a tree, such that this has to be provided by cPython, 
Jython, IronPython, Pypy and so on and so forth?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence