On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 15:22 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So I think we need a builtin. > > > Well, the ugliness shouldn't survive forever if the community shifts over to > using pathlib while the built-in will. We also don't have a built-in for > __index__() so it depends on whether we expect this sort of thing to be the > purview of library authors or if normal people will be interacting with it > (it's probably both during the transition, but I don't know afterwards).
For __index__ the "built-in" is: from operator import index -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ 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
