On 5/21/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since **kwds is already a dict (i.e. a mutable container) and since we > long accept a list for *vargs on the call side, I think it is actually > more logical to use a list for receiving *args.
I've started working on patches against the p3yk branch (side note: could someone please do an 'svn mv p3yk py3k' to fix that name?) to implement this change. One thing I've run into several times in this process is the use of *args as a dict key. As several others have mentioned, the "tuple == fixed-length, list == arbitrary-length" distinction means we now need a way to create hashable lists. I propose a new, hashable frozenlist built-in type to fill this niche. This type would subclass from list, overriding __getitem__, __delitem__, __hash__ and other methods as appropriate. Thoughts? Does this need to go through a full PEP process? Collin Winter _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
