xkenneth wrote: > All, > > Just a quick question. I want to be able to have a data structure > that organizes data (timestamps I'm working with) sequentially, so > that i can easily retrieve the first x amount of timeStamps without > iterating over a list. My thought was to use a binary tree, am i > overthinking the problem to try and implement this structure inside of > python? I was also hoping this would already be done for me. > > Regards, > Ken > Sounds a little like premature optimization here. It depends on how many timestamps you are talking about. Certainly if you have a lot (millions), you should implement binary search, but I would write code first and if it is too slow, fix that part.
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