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From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:26:57 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-12-12, Ricardo Aráoz <ricaraoz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to use a tree structure. Is there a good and known library?
> Doesn't have to be binary tree, I need to have multiple children per node.

Have you tried nested lists?

[[1, 2], [3, 4]

Can represent

     root
     /  \
  1-2    3-4

Python makes it very easy to manipulate such a structure. It
isn't clear that you need more than that yet.

-- 
Neil Cerutti