On 11/14/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BJ?rn Lindqvist wrote: > > > But why is both the dict and list protocol so fat then? Is it hard to > > create your own dict or list-derived types in Python? > > don't confuse things like lists and dictionaries with things like > sequences and mappings. iterators and iterables belong to the second > category.
This doesn't answer my last question: why do we need itertools when we can live without sequencetools, mappingtools, fileliketools, etc. ? George _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com