On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:09:55AM +0000, Alex Shafer wrote: > 2) strings are special and worthy of a "special case" because strings > tend to be human readable and are used in all kinds of user interface.
So are ints, floats, bools, lists, tuples, sets, dicts, etc. We already have a "stringify" function that applies to one object at a time. It's spelled str(), or if you prefer a slightly different format, repr(). To apply the stringify function of your choice to more than one object, you can use a for-loop, or a list comprehension, or a set comprehension, or map(). This is called composition of re-usable components, and it is a Good Thing. If you don't like the two built-in stringify functions, you can write your own, and they still work with for-loops, comprehensions and map(). Best of all, we're not even limited to strings. Change your mind and want floats instead of strings? Because these are re-usable, composable components, you don't have to wait for Python 4.3 to get a list floatify() method, you can just unplug the str() component and replace it with the float() component. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
