On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Alexandre Zani <alexandre.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm +1 on not having a public API for this. Ultimately the contract > for a length hint will depend heavily upon what you need it for. Some > applications would require a length hint to be an "at least" others an > "at most" and others something else entirely. Given that the contract > here appears to be >=0, I don't think the length hint is particularly > useful to the public at large.
Other possible related uses could be to get an approximate number of results for a query without having to actually go through the whole query, useful for databases and search engines. But then you *do* want __len__ as well, so that also doesn't fit with the current PEP. But maybe that's a completely different usecase, even though it seems related to me? //Lennart _______________________________________________ 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
