Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:
This idea surfaced once before and Guido shot it down. IIRC the rationale was the exposed implementation details, that would challenging for users to consistently set the size correctly, and that it may not make sense for other implementations. This was a good while ago so it may be worth scanning the tracker or python-dev archives to find where he opined. ---------- nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46813> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com