Re: Lists implemented as integer-hashed Dictionaries?

2009-02-06 Thread er
etter understanding anyway, but I'd love to hear some details, or see any links, if you have them. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:18 PM, er wrote: > > Somebody much more intelligent than I said today that someone told him > that >

Re: Lists implemented as integer-hashed Dictionaries?

2009-02-06 Thread er
Correction, the first sentence should read, "lists are just dictionaries keyed with integers." On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:18 PM, er wrote: > Somebody much more intelligent than I said today that someone told him that > Python lists are just dictionaries with lists hashed by int

Lists implemented as integer-hashed Dictionaries?

2009-02-06 Thread er
Somebody much more intelligent than I said today that someone told him that Python lists are just dictionaries with lists hashed by integers. Since he said that someone else told him this, I piped up and said that I thought that wasn't true. I looked at the source code for lists in python, and I

Re: Python Global State

2009-02-03 Thread er
is is actually the solution provided by the Lua scripting language. Thanks for the global_ module solution, I was just making sure that was the canonical way. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:27 PM, wrote: > Quoth MRAB : > > er wrote: > > > Simple question, I think: Is there a way to m

Python Global State

2009-02-03 Thread er
Simple question, I think: Is there a way to make a completely global variable across a slew of modules? If not, what is the canonical way to keep a global state? The purpose of this is to try to prevent circular module imports, which just sort of seems nasty. Thank you! -- http://mail.python.org