On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:30 AM Brandt Bucher <brandtbuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry Paul, I sent my reply too soon. > > I see what you're saying, and I'm pretty firmly -1 on reinventing (or > importing) copy.copy. We already have an API for copying a dict (dict.copy). > > I still fail to see problem with using a method that doesn't start and end > with underscores, other than that we "haven't done it". >
Before Python 3.0, iterators had a next() method, and that was explicitly and consciously changed to __next__(). The arguments there seem relevant here too. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3114/ ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/SGWZHDDSMZEH53N2MK2MSY7UQPG543FU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
