Peter Otten schrieb am 25.05.2018 um 09:28: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> But what do people think about proposing a new list replication with copy >> operator? >> >> [[]]**5 >> >> would return a new list consisting of five shallow copies of the inner >> list. > > Yet another arcanum to learn for beginners with little return. > If you cannot refrain from tinkering with the language at least concentrate > on the features with broad application. > Thank you.
I might have phrased this a little less ... short, but if it's really just about avoiding a call to "copy.deepcopy()" in certain special cases at the cost of adding new syntax, then I have to agree that we'd better avoid adding the syntax instead. Stefan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
