Binary search tree

[maxim.novak]

Hi,

I have to get list of URLs one by one and to find the URLs that I have
more than one time(can't be more than twice).

I thought to put them into binary search tree, this way they'll be
sorted and I'll be able to check if the URL already exist.

Couldn't find any python library that implements trees.
Is there some library of this kind in python? Or can I find it
somewhere else?

[Larry Bates]

ma*********@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I have to get list of URLs one by one and to find the URLs that I have
more than one time(can't be more than twice).

I thought to put them into binary search tree, this way they'll be
sorted and I'll be able to check if the URL already exist.

Couldn't find any python library that implements trees.
Is there some library of this kind in python? Or can I find it
somewhere else?

Put them into a set. You can check for existence (very fast) and at the end it
is easy to sort.

-Larry

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-11-09, Larry Bates <la*********@websafe.comwrote:

ma*********@gmail.com wrote:

>I have to get list of URLs one by one and to find the URLs
that I have more than one time(can't be more than twice).

I thought to put them into binary search tree, this way
they'll be sorted and I'll be able to check if the URL already
exist.

Couldn't find any python library that implements trees. Is
there some library of this kind in python? Or can I find it
somewhere else?

Put them into a set. You can check for existence (very fast)
and at the end it is easy to sort.

The set is likely the way to go.

Python's library support for binary search trees consists of the
bisect module.

--
Neil Cerutti
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[D.Hering]

On Nov 9, 4:06 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

Hi,

I have to get list of URLs one by one and to find the URLs that I have
more than one time(can't be more than twice).

I thought to put them into binary search tree, this way they'll be
sorted and I'll be able to check if the URL already exist.

Couldn't find any python library that implements trees.
Is there some library of this kind in python? Or can I find it
somewhere else?

Can you use set() or set.difference()?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

ma*********@gmail.com a écrit :

Hi,

I have to get list of URLs one by one and to find the URLs that I have
more than one time(can't be more than twice).

I thought to put them into binary search tree, this way they'll be
sorted and I'll be able to check if the URL already exist.

What about a set ?

s = set()
for url in urls:
if url in s:
print "already have ", url
else:
set.add(url)

[Michel Albert]

On Nov 9, 11:45 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
<[e-mail]:

[e-mail] a écrit :

Hi,

I have to get list of URLs one by one and to find the URLs that I have
more than one time(can't be more than twice).

I thought to put them into binary search tree, this way they'll be
sorted and I'll be able to check if the URL already exist.

What about a set ?

s = set()
for url in urls:
if url in s:
print "already have ", url
else:
set.add(url)

Interesting. For this case I usually used dicts. As in:

d = {}
for url in urls:
if url in d:
print "already have ", url
else:
d[url] = 1

Now, I can see that this method has some superfluous data (the `1`
that is assigned to the dict). So I suppose this is less memory
efficient. But is this slower then? As both implementations use hashes
of the URL to access the data. Just asking out of curiosity ;)