[Python-Dev] collections module (original) (raw)
Moore, Paul Paul.Moore at atosorigin.com
Mon Jan 12 08:15:07 EST 2004
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From: Raymond Hettinger
I am frankly surprised that so many here think that a collections module would be bad for the language. Go figure. It's not like these are new, untried ideas -- the goal was supposed be improving productivity by providing higher level tools. A fast underlying implementation was just icing on the cake.
I think the "fast implementation" issue has triggered people's comments, rather than the "higher level tools" one.
For the record, I'm +1 on the idea (as far as "higher level tools" goes). I'm not too bothered, in practice, how efficient the implementation is, as long as it's not visibly slower than using lists/dicts directly :-)
Paul.
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