Re: Questions on Using Python to Teach Data Structures and Algorithms



Brendon Towle wrote:
Some of your Lisp translations are subtly off...



Date: 28 Sep 2006 02:49:50 -0700
From: "sturlamolden" <sturlamolden@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Questions on Using Python to Teach Data Structures and
Algorithms
To: python-list@xxxxxxxxxx

If you want to make a chained structure, then perhaps you know LISP?
This is what the basic machinery of LISP looks like in Python:

def cons(a,b)
return [a,b]


should be:
return [a].extend(b)

But surely this will return None?

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