If you use the word 'even' and tell me it has to do with lengths (or any number) I'm going to think of multiples of 2, not equality.
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 3:52 PM <jdve...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ >
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