> Things like your suggestion are called "syntactic-sugar" -- syntax that > adds a convenience, but *no* new functionality. Python has plenty of > "syntactic-sugar"s, and more will be added in the future. To make an > argument for such an addition, one would have to describe some compelling > (and general) use cases in a well-argued PEP. You're welcome to try, but be > forewarned, most PEP's (especially syntax changing PEPs) don't fly far.
Thank you very much for the feedback. I might throw something at Python-Ideas if I think I can come up with an adequate justification and don't come accross a previous similar propsition (though if I do miss it I'm sure it will be pointed out to me fairly quickly). I fully appreciate the small chance of success, but it certainly couldn't hurt to give it a try. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list