FAQ: Doubly Linked Lists: Python - Removing the Head

[tgrtim]

You’re not the only who’s curious about it and I think there’s some potentially useful replies around on the forums-

Linked lists - Two ways of writing the same thing?

I am on “Linked List Implementation III” exercise: https://www.codecademy.com/paths/computer-science/tracks/cspath-cs-102/modules/linked-lists/lessons/learn-linked-lists-python/exercises/linked-lists-python-list-iii For the code written at the bottom the given solution is: def remove_node(self, value_to_remove): current_node = self.get_head_node() if current_node.get_value() == value_to_remove: self.head_node = current_node.get_next_node() else: while current_no…

FAQ: Doubly Linked Lists: Python - Review

There’s some nice discussion here that might help- Linked lists - Two ways of writing the same thing? For some general discussion about this style of programming (accessors or getters/setters) I think Wikipedia has a nice generic introduction but you can get more information suited to your level if you search around- In Python you might find more use of properties than straightforward setters as they’re directly supported as a built-in in the language. There’s some discussion on what a proper…