Guido van Rossum wrote: > I should really stay out of this (hundreds of messages and still > bickering^Wbikeshedding :-), but I personally find strict=True less > confusing than equal=True, both for zip() and for map(). If I didn't know > what was going on, seeing equal=True would make me wonder about whether > equality between the elements might be involved somehow. > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 9:42 PM Christopher Barker python...@gmail.com > wrote: > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:17 PM Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info > > wrote: > > map(func, x, y, strict=True) # ? > > > > Admittedly the word "strict" in the context of map would be rather > > confusing. > > This a really good argument for "equal" rather than "strict". > > Sorry, I'm not seeing why this would be confusing for map but not > > zip. And "equal" might suggest that x and y need to be equal. > > of course it would be confusing for zip. I and others have been advocating > > for "equal" over "strict" for a whiie. this is yet another argument. Since > > I never liked "strict", I'm not sure I can argue why it might be more > > confusing or map than zip :-) > > Perhaps "truncate" or even "trunc" is a better keyword than either > > strict or equal. Not that I'm arguing for a > > keyword here. > > But it wouldn't be truncating anything. If we want to be wordy, > > equal_length would do it -- but I wouldn't want to be that wordy. > > -CHB > > -- > > Christopher Barker, PhD > > Python Language Consulting > > > > Teaching > > Scientific Software Development > > Desktop GUI and Web Development > > wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython > > > > > > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > > Message archived at > > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/DK3PG4... > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?) > http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-c...
What about `even` as "equal in number or amount"? _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GLAEXJCTNX2EFGUNCVU4NQ3TQGTIY6QN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
