the name in c# is not called concurrent list, it is called blockingcollection
dictionary called concurrent dictionary thread safe these kind of things https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd267312(v=vs.110).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997369(v=vs.110).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997305(v=vs.110).aspx On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 4:30:33 PM UTC+8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2016 17:28, meInvent bbird wrote: > > > is there like c# have concurrent list ? > > What is a concurrent list? > > Can you link to the C# documentation for this? > > To me, "concurrent" describes a style of execution flow, and "list" describes > a > data structure. I am struggling to understand what "concurrent list" means. > > > i find something these, but how can it pass an initlist list variable > > initlist = ['a', 'b', 'c'] > result = comb(n, initlist) # pass initlist > > > > is it doing the same function as itertools.combinations ? > > It is calling itertools.combinations. So, yes, it is doing the same function > as > itertools.combinations. > > > > def comb(n, initlist): # the argument n is the number of items to select > > res = list(itertools.combinations(initlist, n)) # create a list from the > > # iterator > > return res > > This does not generate the combinations in parallel. It generates them one at > a > time, and then creates a list of them. > > This is an interesting question. Somebody could probably write a parallel > version of combinations. But I don't know that it would be very useful -- the > limiting factor on combinations is more likely to be memory, not time. > > Suppose you generate combinations of 100 items, taken 10 at a time. If I > remember the formula for combinations correctly, the total number of > combinations is: > > 100!/(10! * 90!) = 17310309456440 > > combinations in total. If each generated combination took just *one* byte of > memory, that would require over 17 TB of RAM. > > > > -- > Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list