[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's obvious for sets and dictionaries that there is only one thing to > discard and that after the operation you're guaranteed the key no longer > exists. Would you want the same semantics for lists or the semantics of > list.remove where it only removes the first instance?
In my use cases I usually know that there is either zero or one occurrences in the list. But maybe it would be more useful to have a remove_all() method, whose behaviour with zero occurrences would just be a special case. Or maybe remove() should just do nothing if the item is not found. I don't think I've ever found getting an exception from it to be useful, and I've often found it a nuisance. What experiences have others had with it? -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
