On 3/12/2011 8:23 PM, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
Greg Ewing<greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
So am I. It seems to result from the hisorical mess
of distinguishing between numeric and sequence operations
at the C level but not the Python level. I think CPython
should be moving in the direction of eliminating that
distinction, not expecting all other Python implementations
to copy it.
As a person responsible for part of the mess, I agree. I would hope
this could be cleaned up in Python 3 without causing too much
trouble for developers.
I opened the issue http://bugs.python.org/issue11477
but I won't be writing the patch ;-).
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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