James Tanis wrote: > I may be wrong here, but shouldn't you just use a stack, or in other > words, use the list as a stack and just pop the data off the top. I > believe there is a method pop() already supplied for you.
Just a note on terminology here. I believe the word "stack" generally refers to a LIFO (last-in first-out) structure, not what the OP needs which is a FIFO (first-in first-out). Assuming you would refer to the .append() operation as "putting data on the bottom", then to pop off the "top" you would use pop(0), not just pop(). Normally though, I think one would refer to these as the head and tail (not top and bottom), and probably call the whole thing a queue, rather than a stack. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
