Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: I agree that the proposed behaviour seems more correct: the collection of all subsets of size 4 of range(3) is perfectly valid and well-defined; it just happens to be empty. I've also encountered this in practice (in code that was enumerating partitions of a list into a fixed number of pieces), but in my case it was easier to work around.
I guess the counterargument is that the current ValueError might catch bugs early; I don't know how often this is true in practice. In any case, this is Raymond's call. ---------- assignee: -> rhettinger nosy: +marketdickinson, rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4816> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
