On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:04:03 +1300 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Donald Stufft wrote: > > > > perhaps a better > > solution is to simply make it so that something like ``a_list + > > an_iterable`` is valid and the iterable would just be consumed and +’d > > onto the list. > > I don't think I like the asymmetry that this would > introduce into + on lists. Currently > > [1, 2, 3] + (4, 5, 6) > > is an error because it's not clear whether the > programmer intended the result to be a list or > a tuple.
>>> bytearray(b"a") + b"bc" bytearray(b'abc') >>> b"a" + bytearray(b"bc") b'abc' It's quite convenient. In many contexts lists and tuples are quite interchangeable (for example when unpacking). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
