+1 indeedy. On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > Brett Cannon wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 14:46, Raymond Hettinger <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I would like to deprecate some outdated functions in the operator module. >>> >>> The isSequenceType(), isMappingType(), and isNumberType() >>> functions never worked reliably and now their >>> intended purpose has been largely fulfilled by >>> ABCs. >>> >>> The isCallable() function has long been deprecated >>> and I think it's finally time to rip it out. >>> >>> The repeat() function never really corresponded to an >>> operator. Instead, it reflected an underlying implementation detail (namely >>> the naming of the sq_repeat slot and the abstract C API function >>> PySequence_Repeat). That functionality is already exposed by operator.mul: >>> >>> operator.mul('abc', 3) --> 'abcabcabc' >> >> +1 to all of it. > > What Brett said. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >
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