A table, which is like a list, but can start at any integer.
A tree which is like a dictionary, but will iterate over the
keys in sorted order.
The problem is that I would like to implemet slices but, that
seems to be impossible with how slices are implemented now.
I wrote the following class to test things out.
class Tst:
def __getitem__(self, key):
print key
then I called the interpreter and got this:
from tst import Tst
t=Tst()
t[:] slice(0, 2147483647, None) t[:9] slice(0, 9, None) t[:'ok'] slice(None, 'ok', None) t['ok':] slice('ok', None, None) t[6:] slice(6, 2147483647, None) t[1,2] (1, 2) t[1,2:] (1, slice(2, None, None)) t[(1,2):]
slice((1, 2), None, None)
Now suppose tab is a table with indexes from -5 to 12.
tab[:4] would have to make a table ranging from -5 to 4
tab[0:4] would have to make a table ranging from 0 to 4.
But each time I would be given the same argument, being
slice(0, 4, None). So I would be unable to distinghuish
between the two.
I don't think it very likely but I could have a table
with indexes from 2147483647 to 2147483700, so having
2147483647 as value that indicated till the end of
the sequence is a bit awkward.
The same problems occur when I have a tree with integer
key values. But even if I don't use integers as keys
I have a problem with what is returned since None is
a valid key and thus it shouldn't be used this way.
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Antoon Pardon