On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 15:32, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 6/22/2010 9:24 AM, Michael Urman wrote: >> These are trivial functions; >> I just don't fully understand why the capability isn't baked in. > > Possible reasons: They are special purpose functions easily built on the > basic functions provided. Fine for a 3rd party library. Most people do not > need them. Some might be mislead by them. As other have said, "Not every > one-liner should be builtin".
Perhaps the two-argument constructions on bytes and str should have been removed in favor of the .decode and .encode methods on their respective classes. Or vice versa; I don't have the history to know in which order they originated, and which is theoretically preferred these days. -- Michael Urman _______________________________________________ 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
