Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
Dennis beat me to it in saying that tuples cannot be replaced by lists. But I also wanted to say that it is *not true* that removing bracket symbols would increase readability. Natural language allows parenthetical phrases -- which can be bracketed using dashes (or with parentheses [commonly called round brackets in the British commonwealth]) or even commas -- so even in natural language they are used. Even programming languages which are much, much closer to natural language than Python, like Hypertalk and Inform-7, use parentheses and delimiters for various purposes, for example: http://inform7.com/book/WI_21_3.html Ultimately, we simply can't remove brackets (square, round or curly) from the language. It would make it impossible to tell whether func(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) was a call to func() with 5 integer arguments, or a single 5-element list argument, or two 2-element lists and an integer, or three integers and a 2-element list, etc. So don't waste your time taking this proposal to Python-Ideas. ---------- nosy: +steven.daprano _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46385> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
