Rob Wolfe wrote: > I wonder why people always complain about `len` function but never > about `iter` or `pprint.pprint`? :)
Not complaining. len is simple and understandable and IMO fits nicely with split(), strip(), etc... that's why I used it as an example, but list(), etc. could be used as examples as well: a_string.list() instead of list(a_string) > And to answer the question. In OO programming generic functions > are no less important than classes and objects. Do they not take away from the OOness of the overall language and introduce inconsistencies? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list