Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes: > This is unforgiveable, not only changing the indexing semantics of > Python (because a user would have NO CLUE that something underlying > has been changed, and thus it should never be done), but also for > the needless abuse of exec.
Then I guess you'd fire Guido, too -- from socket.py: class _socketobject(object): [...] _s = ("def %s(self, *args): return self._sock.%s(*args)\n\n" "%s.__doc__ = _realsocket.%s.__doc__\n") for _m in _socketmethods: exec _s % (_m, _m, _m, _m) del _m, _s -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list