On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jeremy Hylton wrote: > >>>>> "MAL" == M -A Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com> writes: > MAL> Perhaps someone could take Aaron's kjbuckets and write a Python > MAL> emulation for it (I think he's even already done something like > MAL> this for gadfly). Then the emulation could go into the core and > MAL> if people want speed they can install his extension (the > MAL> emulation would have to detect this and use the real thing > MAL> then). > > I've been waiting for Tim Peters to say something about sets, but I'll > chime in with what I recall him saying last time a discussion like > this came up on c.l.py. (I may misremember, in which case I'll at > least draw him into the discussion in order to correct me <0.5 wink>.) > > The problem with a set module is that there are a number of different > ways to implement them -- in C using kjbuckets is one example. Each > approach is appropriate for some applications, but not for every one. > A set is pretty simple to build from a list or a dictionary, so we > leave it to application writers to write the one that is appropriate > for their application. Yah... +1 on what Jeremy said. Leave them out of the distro since we can't do them Right for all people. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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