Jeroen Demeyer <jeroen.k.deme...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> ISTM that small and probably unimportant opimizations shouldn't spill-over > into API feature creep. The way I see it, the optimization is besides the point here. Regardless of performance, the added function is a useful feature to have to avoid forcing people to reinvent the wheel. For example, would you want the exact same code duplicated for fractions.Fraction() and for statictics.mean()? See also #37836 in case you didn't know about that issue. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37884> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com