[Python-Dev] Linked lists (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Dec 14 21:19:29 CET 2005

Martin Blais wrote:

As I'm digging deeper into LISP and Scheme these days, I was wondering, is there a good compelling reason why in Python we don't have a native singly-linked and doubly-linked list types?

As you seem to be asking for the historical reason: because nobody ever wanted it so badly to do anything about it.

I would personally consider it a waste of energy to implement such a thing with so little use, given the alternatives.

Regards, Martin

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