In article <a33fb576-f453-4936-8551-9b999b5e2...@p35g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Oct 17, 9:49=A0pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: >> >> Ahhh, I vaguely remember there being some discussion of this when sum() >> was introduced -- I think that using InPlaceAdd would have caused bad >> behavior when the initial list was referred to by multiple names. > >Thanks for the pointer: I've now found the thread. It looks like >Alex Martelli made this exact change 6 years ago, and then had to >revert it because it changed behaviour: > >http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039511.html > >I've just checked in an extra test to test_builtin.py to make sure >this bright idea isn't repeated. :)
Thanks! I hope you added a comment to the code, too. ;-) And wow, sometimes my memory amazes me... -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it." --re...@lion.austin.ibm.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
