I wrote here about some straightforward ways to program D. E. Knuth in Python, and John Nagle answered that the value of Knuth's book series to the programmer has been significantly diminished by the fact that many functionalities such as sorting and hashing have either been built in the Python language, or are available in libraries (à propos, as an aside, very many functionalities are available notably in the CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Language Network. I wonder what were the corresponding repository with the Python language....)
Nagle's comment is to my opinion very true. So I carried out a search procedure -- and found two good sources of algorithms for the Python programmer: 1) Cormen-Leiserson-Rivest-Stein: Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd edition, ISBN 0-262-53196-8. The 3rd edition has been published, I don't know which one is the most recent one. 2) Atallah-Blanton: Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, Second Edition, 2 books, ISBNs 978-1-58488-822-2 and 978-1-58488-820-8. This one in particular is really good as a general computer science source. The point of this entry is that my answer to Nagle's criticism is that numerous such more or less sophisticated algorithm reference books can be found. I intended to write some demonstrations in Python -- I chose the RSA cryptosystem from Cormen et al's book and the linear programming ellipsoid algorithm from Atallah-Blanton's book -- but I have not yet done so, it would have been straightforward but too time-consuming. yours, and V/R, Antti J Ylikoski Helsinki, Finland, the EU -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
