Raymond Hettinger added the comment: This should have been changed in Python 3.0 which is when were allowed to make non-backwards compatible changes. Since it wasn't, we have to live this mild annoyance forever (you can't change it without breaking somebody's working code somewhere).
I'm open to a small documentation patch that indicates that the actual keyword is "sequence" but the main entry of list(iterable) should remain because it is more descriptive of the kind of argument that is allowed. ---------- assignee: -> rhettinger nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27577> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
