Raymond Hettinger wrote: > When you run reversed(s), the s argument > can be any Sequence (either mutable or immutable) and the > return value is an iterator that doesn't copy the whole > dataset.
If reversed() became a *view* (a mutable one) rather than an iterator, there might be more of a case for dropping list.reverse(), although I'm still not sure. It might still be a good idea to make reversed() a view (maybe mutable, maybe not). -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ 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
