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On 2014-03-28, Daniele Forghieri <guru@digitalfantasy.it> wrote:
> The worse is the contrary, when I must use C and I think 'Here
> I use a dictionary, at the end convert it in a list that I sort
> with that key ...' only to realize that I don't have dictionary
> and the list I can use are very less manageable that the ones I
> used in Python ...

C could provide more friendly general purpose containers in its
library, but doesn't. There are some good free ones: glib, for
example.

Cython provides a really nice in-between level.

-- 
Neil Cerutti