I should really stay out of this (hundreds of messages and still bickering^Wbikeshedding :-), but I personally find strict=True *less* confusing than equal=True, both for zip() and for map(). If I didn't know what was going on, seeing equal=True would make me wonder about whether equality between the elements might be involved somehow.
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 9:42 PM Christopher Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:17 PM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > > map(func, x, y, strict=True) # ? >> > > >> > > Admittedly the word "strict" in the context of `map` would be rather >> > > confusing. >> > > >> > >> > This a really good argument for "equal" rather than "strict". >> >> Sorry, I'm not seeing why this would be confusing for `map` but not >> `zip`. And "equal" might suggest that x and y need to be equal. >> > > of course it would be confusing for zip. I and others have been advocating > for "equal" over "strict" for a whiie. this is yet another argument. Since > I never liked "strict", I'm not sure I can argue why it might be more > confusing or map than zip :-) > > Perhaps "truncate" or even "trunc" is a better keyword than either >> strict or equal. Not that I'm arguing for a keyword here. >> > > But it wouldn't be truncating anything. If we want to be wordy, > equal_length would do it -- but I wouldn't want to be that wordy. > > -CHB > > > > -- > Christopher Barker, PhD > > Python Language Consulting > - Teaching > - Scientific Software Development > - Desktop GUI and Web Development > - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DK3PG4ITHWSSCN4S4KW5EDPEBP26OSXF/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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