[Python-Dev] Unordered tuples/lists (original) (raw)

Gustavo Narea me at gustavonarea.net
Wed May 19 10:28:28 CEST 2010


Hi, Guido.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

This is typically called a "bag". Maybe searching for that will help you find a recipe?

A bag/multiset is close to what I need, except for one thing: I need to iterate over the elements in the original order, not in a random order.

The data structure I'm proposing is basically a list/tuple, and the only thing that changes is comparison with another unordered list/tuple: If they both have the same elements with the same multiplicity, they are equivalent (regardless of the order).

Cheers,



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