[PD] your favorite key:value data structure?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

> Hello Jonathan,

> Thanks for your reply.
> I'm not quite sure what you mean.

> What pd-vanilla object do you use to implement "Variable number of keys of arbitrarily typed values" 
[text], [coll], etc.

> or "set number of keys with set value types"?data structures

The benefit of the latter is that you know the number of "slots" ahead of time so you can populate 
the data without needing to allocate memory.

> I should add that I'm interested ultimately in a data structure that I can populate from text files, read by PD.

In that case I don't think the benefit I mentioned wrt data structures matters because 
the I/O speed will be your limiting factor.

My suggestion would be to start with the more expressive vanilla object-- [text]-- and see 
if it fulfills your needs. Keep in mind though that it is at core not a key/value store but instead 
a 2-dimensional array of atoms. E.g., you can decide that the first item in each line is your 
key, but the text class interface does nothing to prevent you from adding more lines that 
duplicate that same key.

-Jonathan

> -ali


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:

Variable number of keys of arbitrarily typed values, or 
set number of keys with set value types?
-Jonathan


      From: Ali Momeni <batchku at gmail.com>
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 Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 1:09 PM
 Subject: [PD] your favorite key:value data structure?
  
Hello all,
I'm looking for something analogous to the Max "coll" object, or a python dictionary, or anything with key value pairs.  
I'm aware of the 'cyclone' and its 'coll' object.
i'm wondering if there is a pd-vanilla friendly alternative to this 3rd party external.
any hints?
thanks in advance,
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