On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 10:21 AM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > Not every trivial combination of functions needs to be given a built-in > or standard library solution. Especially not if doing so will break > backwards compatibility. > > "I had three numbers in a tuple, and wanted half of twice the first > number added to the difference of the remaining two. What do you think > about making `len((a,b,c))` return `(2*a + abs(b - c))/2`?" > > *wink*
Certainly not! It should be the square root of the sum of the squares of all the numbers!! ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YN4DQ2ZJE75FX5SGUBI3M42ZNO6GDLP4/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
