Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes. If it's not going to be used, then there's not much point. > Practicality beats purity, and all that.
Geez man, "practicality beats purity" only means that if maintaining purity of something is impractical, you can judiciously let purity slide. It doesn't mean every slapdash kludge you can throw together is acceptable for a widely-used distro, just because it works for the cases you happened to think of at the moment you wrote it. Wanting to handle the .count() parameters the same way for lists and strings does not present any practical obstacles. So purity is not in conflict with practicality there. The lack of orthogonality for that operation is simply a wart. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
