-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 4, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On 9/4/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Since x[a:b] is not basic syntax (like it once was) but simply the >> combination of operator.getitem and slice() I don't see the point of >> keeping operator.getitem. >> >> PS. I don't know how useful the operator module really is -- in all >> those years it's existed I haven't really used it myself, and I'm >> always baffled when I see code using it. >> > > The only great use I have found for it myself is attrgetter and > itemgetter, but those were added by Raymond in 2.5 (I think). > Otherwise I never use it. Same here, although very occasionally I use one or two others. I still think attrgetter could be made more useful by dereferencing dot- paths. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRt2pRXEjvBPtnXfVAQK59gQAn7KTJHk3R3JTLErEfljDKZ7B2H0WEZD3 ljpnDc7Kn5GNAfWdNueJNigMKGctKhK3ZEO9Gw8TNxTJonhOCjLhSPZPrCMlM3tV CeEieXw8VBFMPA0biDEtq3Ic6x/6yuX3xXmVPQTOOY1kAScfFmeb1bi17xPkhdsl 36FrPEsePig= =rR0Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
