Popular recipes tagged "retrieving" but not "api"http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/retrieving-api/2011-11-21T06:41:57-08:00ActiveState Code RecipesGet multiple elements from a list (Python) 2011-11-21T06:41:57-08:00Alexander James Wallarhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4179768/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577953-get-multiple-elements-from-a-list/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577953 by <a href="/recipes/users/4179768/">Alexander James Wallar</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/get/">get</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/getvar/">getvar</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/list/">list</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/retrieve/">retrieve</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/retrieving/">retrieving</a>). </p> <p>This code lets you retrieve multiple elements from a list at one time</p> Retrieving the median of a set in constant time (Python) 2011-04-19T15:00:57-07:00jimmy2timeshttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4177690/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577661-retrieving-the-median-of-a-set-in-constant-time/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577661 by <a href="/recipes/users/4177690/">jimmy2times</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/data/">data</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/heap/">heap</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/median/">median</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/retrieving/">retrieving</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/structure/">structure</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>Provides a data structure for a queue of integers whose get() method returns the median element. The interface is similar to the standard Queue module, with an added method top() to retrieve the median without removing it.</p>