On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 05:16:28AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> To be fair, the name "struct" implies a C-style structure, which >> _does_ have a fixed size, or at least fixed offsets for its members > > > Ah, the old "everyone thinks in C terms" fallacy raises its ugly head > agan :-) > > The name doesn't imply any such thing to me, or those who haven't been > raised on C. It implies the word "structure", which has no implication > of being fixed-width.
Fair point. Objection retracted - and it was only minor anyway. This would be a handy feature to add. +1. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
