Re: [python-uk] A stack with better performance than using a list

2017-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence via python-uk
On 13/06/2017 16:29, Jonathan Hartley wrote: On 06/13/2017 09:04 AM, Mark Lawrence via python-uk wrote: On 07/06/2017 18:50, Jonathan Hartley wrote: I recently submitted a solution to a coding challenge, in an employment context. One of the questions was to model a simple stack. I wrote a sol

Re: [python-uk] A stack with better performance than using a list

2017-06-13 Thread Jonathan Hartley
On 06/13/2017 09:04 AM, Mark Lawrence via python-uk wrote: On 07/06/2017 18:50, Jonathan Hartley wrote: I recently submitted a solution to a coding challenge, in an employment context. One of the questions was to model a simple stack. I wrote a solution which appended and popped from the end o

Re: [python-uk] A stack with better performance than using a list

2017-06-13 Thread Mark Lawrence via python-uk
On 07/06/2017 18:50, Jonathan Hartley wrote: I recently submitted a solution to a coding challenge, in an employment context. One of the questions was to model a simple stack. I wrote a solution which appended and popped from the end of a list. This worked, but failed with timeouts on their las

Re: [python-uk] A stack with better performance than using a list

2017-06-13 Thread Jonathan Hartley
Very interesting! Thanks for digging deeper and sharing. I was thinking about horrible complicated structures like storing the 'add_to_first_n' params in parallel to the stack, to apply them at 'pop' time, which doesn't work at all. As is so often the case with these things, your solution of

Re: [python-uk] A stack with better performance than using a list

2017-06-13 Thread Jonathan Hartley
You are right, when popping an empty stack I should probably raise. On 2017-06-08 13:06, Samuel F wrote: It may have failed for a different reason, (hard to say without the original question and answer). In the case where the stack is empty, you are returning None, was that the requirement? (

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