On Oct 15, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
> Do you mean that you can't do:
>
> lst.Choices = ["a", "b", "c"]
> lst.Choices.append("d")
>
> but that you instead have to:
>
> lst = lst.Choices = ["a", "b", "c"]
> lst.Choices.append("d")
> lst.Choices = lst.Choices
>
> This has struck me as kind of awkward, too. I wonder if we could make it
> better all
> around by accepting any sequence type to Choices, but converting that
> sequence to a
> tuple, so that if someone tries to modify it in place, they'd get an
> exception and
> understand immediately that they have to reassign the whole sequence.
Funny that this point is raised now. I was working on a class that will
eliminate this problem, but so far only have append() working. I should have
time to finish it this weekend.
-- Ed Leafe
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