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On 12/12/2013 19:30, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu
> <mailto:neilc@norwich.edu>> wrote:
>
>     On 2013-12-12, Ricardo Aráoz <ricaraoz@gmail.com
>     <mailto: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]
>
> I think that was a type for this:
>
I think that was a typo for "typo". :-)

> [[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.
>