On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:06:11 -0500, "George Sakkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm getting off-topic here, but it strikes me that strings have so many >methods (some of which are >of arguable utility, e.g. swapcase), while proposing two useful methods >(http://tinyurl.com/5nv66) >for dicts -- a builtin with a considerably smaller API than str -- meets so >much resistance. Any >insight ? > >George > I did a quick check. >>> len(dir(str)) 63 >>> len(dir(int)) 53 >>> len(dir(float)) 45 >>> len(dir(dict)) 40 >>> len(dir(list)) 42 >>> len(dir(tuple)) 27 We need more tuple methods! jk ;) Looks like the data types, strings, int an float; have more methods than dict, list, and tuple. I would expect that because there is more ways to manipulate data than is needed to manage containers. Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
