Re: Trees

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:

> Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>:
>
> > Others have answered as to why other special-purpose
> > constrained-structure trees have not been added to the stdlib.
>
> Ordered O(log n) mappings are not special-purpose data structures. I'd
> say strings and floats are much more special-purpose than ordered
> mappings, and yet Python has direct support for those.
>

Your anecdote is strong, sir.

However, I use strings thousands of times, floats maybe a hundred of times,
and order mappings a few times.

My anecdote counters yours.

A tree structure is special purpose because there is a lot of options with
different characteristics that make certain implementations ideal in some
cases and not in others.

A float is a float, there's a standard (IEEE 754?), its not special at all.

A string, I suppose, could be special, but that's a pretty nonsense view of
the world since what most people use strings commonly.

I'm not arguing against including a tree, but I have no advice on which
one, and the one-- one!-- time I've needed a tree I got one off pypi. Not
everything needs to be in the stdlib.

But to call strings and floats special purpose is really a silly argument
to make.

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Re: Trees Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-01-20 01:08 -0500
  Re: Trees Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-20 11:45 +0200
    Re: Trees Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-20 10:14 -0800
      Re: Trees Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-20 22:26 +0200
    Re: Trees Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2015-01-20 23:56 -0800
      Re: Trees Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-21 10:35 +0200
      Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 04:09 -0800
        Re: Trees Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 23:35 +1100
          Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 07:24 -0800
        Re: Trees Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-01-21 06:55 -0600
        Re: Trees Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 00:01 +1100
        Re: Trees Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-01-21 08:26 -0600
        Re: Trees Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 01:31 +1100
        Re: Trees Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-22 01:47 +1100
          Re: Trees Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 09:15 -0700
          Re: Trees Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 10:27 -0700
  Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-20 05:33 -0800
    Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-20 05:51 -0800
    Re: Trees Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-20 16:15 +0200
      Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-20 06:35 -0800
    Re: Trees Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-20 10:19 -0700
      Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-20 10:15 -0800
        Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-20 10:35 -0800
    Re: Trees Mario <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-01-20 22:47 +0100
      Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-20 17:23 -0800
        Re: Trees Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-20 17:49 -0800
          Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-20 18:03 -0800
            Re: Trees Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-21 14:27 -0800
              Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 21:17 -0800
        Re: Trees Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 15:54 -0700
          Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 21:20 -0800
            Re: Trees Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 00:01 -0700
            Re: Trees Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 23:56 -0700
          Re: Trees Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-21 23:16 -0800
            Re: Trees Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 08:54 -0800
      Re: Trees Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-01-20 21:19 -0500
        Re: Trees Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 14:05 +0000

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