Re: Python recursive tree, linked list thingy

2012-03-08 Thread Enrico Franchi
Wanderer wrote: > How > do you handle this sort of thing in Python? I believe that the best thing to do is a Union-Find algorithm. Depending on the exact nature of your problem, you may also want to check out the Hoshen-Kopelman Algorithm. Although the algorithm itself is rather efficient, it

Re: very large dictionary

2008-08-05 Thread Enrico Franchi
Simon Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, as I was using Python, I did not expect to have to care about > the language's internal affairs that much. I thought I could simply do > always the same no matter how large my files get. In other words, I > thought Python was really scalable. It's n

Re: Hobbyist - Python vs. other languages

2008-08-05 Thread Enrico Franchi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A programming language is a tool to solve problems, so first of all: > do you have problems to solve? You can create some visualizations, > some program with GUI, some networked code to download things and > process them, etc. It's surprising how hard is this part. I