Relation: The Missing Container
Scott C. James, James Larkin · Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences · 2015
The humble mathematical relation 1 , a fundamental (if implicit) component in computational algorithms, is conspicuously absent in most standard container collections, including Python's.In this paper, we present the basics of a relation container, and why you might use it instead of other methods.The concept is simple to implement and easy to use.We will walk through with code examples using our implementation of a relation (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/relate)