[Original not available on my swerver, responding here] >On 7/11/10 10:03 PM, Nathan Rice wrote: >> >> Yeah, I long ago filed the in place place in the same folder as >> strings-as-sequences, all() returning True for an empty iterable and any >> returning True rather than the thing which triggered it.
Because I love to repeat myself: "...string iteration isn't about treating strings as sequences of strings, it's about treating strings as sequences of characters. The fact that characters are also strings is the reason we have problems, but characters are strings for other good reasons." --Aahz http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/000897.html Do you really want to give up Python's lovely string-slicing capabilities? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "....Normal is what cuts off your sixth finger and your tail..." --Siobhan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
