From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LanX Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: One more question about elisp Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:40:12 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <53781544-57b8-4cde-a07a-c3632d8bac7f@a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257558052 28426 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2009 01:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 07 02:40:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N6aIG-0004Ry-EX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:40:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40870 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N6aIF-0004M3-Nj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:40:43 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v30g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 188.97.3.157 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1257558013 32064 127.0.0.1 (7 Nov 2009 01:40:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v30g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=188.97.3.157; posting-account=W9fpQwoAAADZYmkl-8sXk1VPxG3rq-Pd User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.14, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174494 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69567 Archived-At: On 6 Nov., 22:05, Francis Moreau wrote: > It sounds strange to me (knowing C, python) to use hash tables to > structure data. You never used dicts in python for structured data??? IIRC an object instance (like in your example) is actually just a dictionary and "dictionary" is just the python way to say hash table. If this is not the answer you should maybe try to extend the question. HTH Rolf