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| Date | 2014-01-03 10:41 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: Creating a list with holes |
| From | Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.4856.1388763689.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:30 AM, <eneskristo@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, January 3, 2014 4:19:09 PM UTC+1, Larry....@gmail.com wrote: >> I think I know the answer is no, but is there any package that allows >> >> creating a list with holes in it? E.g. I'd want to do something like: >> >> x[10] = 12 >> x[20] = 30 >> >> I'm thinking of something like defaultdict but for lists (I know >> >> that's very different, but ... ) > > Hello Larry! > > The thing is, where to put the holes? A costum function can be made if you want the hole to be placed for example: > 1. In random > 2. Every nth hole(Or with another sequence) > 3. In the beginning or end. > > Please tell me how do you want them, and I will try my best to help! The holes would be between the items I put in. In my example above, if I assigned to [10] and [20], then the other items ([0..9] and [11..19]) would have None.
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Creating a list with holes Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 10:19 -0500
Re: Creating a list with holes eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-01-03 07:30 -0800
Re: Creating a list with holes Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 10:41 -0500
Re: Creating a list with holes Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 18:07 +0000
Re: Creating a list with holes Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 19:15 -0500
Re: Creating a list with holes Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-03 20:18 -0500
Re: Creating a list with holes Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-01-04 02:03 +0000
Re: Creating a list with holes Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-03 10:38 -0500
Re: Creating a list with holes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-04 02:46 +1100
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