Some of your Lisp translations are subtly off...
> Date: 28 Sep 2006 02:49:50 -0700
> From: "sturlamolden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Questions on Using Python to Teach Data Structures and
> Algorithms
> To: python-list@python.org
>
> 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)
> def car(structure)
> return structure[0]
>
> def cdr(structure)
> return structure[1]
should be:
return structure[1:]
B.
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