Op 2006-01-19, Alex Martelli schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> What should list(list(1,2,3)) be? Should "list" really work >> completely differently depending on whether it has a single arg or >> multiple args? > > It works just fine for max and min, why should list be different?
Well IMO it works fine for max and min because people rarely want the minimum or maximum over a sequence of tuples or lists. But how would you make the following list: [(1,3)] As far as I understand that would have to become: list(((1,3),)) And [[3]] would have to become: list((list((3,)),)) In my opinion the bracket notation wins the clarity contest handsdown in this case and IMO these cases occure frequently enough. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
