[Python-il] The Tuples and Lists question

[Rani Hod]

Oops, indeed.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 16:53, Omer Zak w1-at-zak.co.il |Python-IL| <
p5hejz1lzm0t at sneakemail.com> wrote:

> Hello Rani,
> You replied to me personally.  Did you mean to post your answer to
> Python-IL?
>
> --- Omer
>
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 16:00 +0300, Rani Hod wrote:
> > Why do other languages have arrays and linked lists as different types
> > of sequences?
> > "The only difference" is that linked lists are easy to modify and
> > arrays admit random access to elements.
> > These are two distinct data structures with different operation
> > complexity.
> >
> > In a deeper sense, hashing cannot be well-defined for mutable types,
> > so the two requirements you mentioned are actually mutual exclusive.
>
>
>
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