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Re: Creating a list with holes

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On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> Depending on what exactly you need, it's probably worth just using a
> dict. In what ways do you need it to function as a list? You can
> always iterate over sorted(some_dict.keys()) if you need to run
> through them in order.

FWIW, sorting inside a loop is rarely a good idea, unless your lists
are pretty small.

For that, there are many tree datastructures available.

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Re: Creating a list with holes Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 18:58 -0800

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