Campbell Barton <ideasma...@gmail.com> added the comment: Hi Raymond, in general I agree with your comments that adding 2 ways to do things is not great. The reason I still think this is an advantage is that I know the API well enough (with manipulating dicts/lists etc) and I still want this function for the sake of convenience.
For the same reason that PyList_SET_ITEM is useful, this is useful too. Loosing the error checking is a disadvantage but in many cases API's dont do error checking for every new item allocated. Python's own code does this in a few cases with PyList_SET_ITEM... eg. ./Python/_warnings.c:857: PyList_SET_ITEM(filters, 1, create_filter(PyExc_ImportWarning, "ignore")) ./Python/Python-ast.c:2757: PyList_SET_ITEM(value, i, ast2obj_cmpop((cmpop_ty)asdl_seq_GET(o->v.Compare.ops, i))); ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6616> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
