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Re: Creating a list with holes

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Date Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:41:21 -0500
Subject Re: Creating a list with holes
From Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
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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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