Monday 9 January 2012

8.3. collections — High-performance container datatypes — Python v2.7.2 documentation

http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html

So many goodies .. but unavail on my servers which run Python 2.4.3 stock :( 

was particularly interested in using 
defaultdict dict subclass that calls a factory function to supply missing values

New in version 2.5.

2 comments:

  1. Can you build a newer Python in your home directory and update your environment to use that instead?

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  2. Thanks! Yeah sorry left out details but in the pursuit of simplicity in administration, for one project, I am actually sharing one user id with others. While I believe most are perl folks but I don't wish to break anything.

    Though I suppose I cld use a different bash profile when i log in
    hmmm

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