On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 14:07, Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote: > > I'd like to hear more about why the empty tuple has been selected as the > default index.
It's still not settled. Steven proposed None, I propose empty tuple for affinity with *args behavior, others proposed no positional arg at all, but then there's the problem of the setter. I sent a mail to the numpy mailing list yesterday, and all people who replied seemed to prefer empty tuple. Here is the thread http://numpy-discussion.10968.n7.nabble.com/Request-for-comments-on-PEP-637-Support-for-indexing-with-keyword-arguments-td48489.html -- Kind regards, Stefano Borini _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/5CGHSL5G3ILP5FLX4PY4VDGSRAXKOL3S/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
