Rick Johnson wrote: > On Sunday, February 10, 2013 7:30:00 AM UTC-6, Oscar Benjamin wrote: >> On 10 February 2013 04:53, Mark Janssen wrote: >> > [...] >> > I have to agree with Rick, I think requiring the user to explicitly >> > create a new object, which is already a good and widely-used practice, >> > should be the Only One Way to Do It. >> >> Why should I copy a potentially large data structure just to iterate >> over it in reverse order? > > That's a good question, and the answer is: "Only a fool would make a copy > of ANY data structure only to simply iterate over it; be it forwards or > backwards or sideways".
Aren't you the fool who wants to remove reversed() and have people write: [quote] reversed = list(seq).reverse() Oh yes, you are the fool. And me the bigger fool for listening to you. Time for another six months in my killfile, methinks. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
