Martin v. Löwis wrote: > I think this would violate the policy that a mutating function shouldn't > give the object being modified as the result
Well, it's a necessary violation, given the way the inplace methods work. And it doesn't *necessarily* return the same value, it might return a new object. So the return value conveys useful information, unlike with list.sort() et al. -- 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
