On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 22:29:30 -0600, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:07:50 -0600, Steven Bethard >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: >> >>>I only searched a few relatively recent threads in c.l.py, so there are >>>probably more, but it looks to me like the final decision will have to >>>be made by a pronouncement from Guido. >> >> Great... It takes me two releases of Python to get comfortable >> with them, and then they are threatened to be removed again... >> >> Might as well submit the language to ISO for standardization -- >> then I wouldn't be following an erratic target <G> > >Two points: > >(1) There's no reason to get uncomfortable even if they're removed. >You'd just replace [] with list(). So list(1, 2, 3) will be the same as [1, 2, 3] ?? Right now, >>> list(1,2,3) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: list() takes at most 1 argument (3 given) have fun ;-) > >(2) *IMPORTANT* If this happens *at all*, it won't happen until Python >3.0, which is probably at least 5 years away. And the Python 2.X branch >will still be available then, so if you don't like Python 3.0, you don't >have to use it. > >STeVe Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
