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Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists

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From Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws>
Date 2013-08-08 22:32 +0100
Subject Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On 8 August 2013 21:03, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> If .pop were being added today, I would argue against including the index
> parameter.

GASP! That's no fair!

1) When using pop you normally want to keep the mutability available,
so iter(mylist) is a no-go.
2) When using the index, it's often somewhere in the middle that
you're popping from
3) There's always deque for deques

That said you can always use blist which has O(log n) time complexity
for these pops. It's a hassle it's not stdlib :/.

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Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu Gabriel <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 02:45 -0700
  Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-08-08 12:07 +0200
    Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 03:38 -0700
      Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 12:12 +0100
        Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 04:40 -0700
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-08-08 09:20 -0500
        Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 04:44 -0700
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 04:50 -0700
            Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 14:08 +0100
              Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 06:32 -0700
                Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 15:03 +0100
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-08 16:03 -0400
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-08 22:32 +0100
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-08-08 16:50 -0500
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-08 18:10 -0400

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