On Saturday, February 9, 2013 11:04:42 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: > > Well Chris i have wonderful news for you! Python /does/ > > have "homogenous arrays", and they're called, wait for > > it......... arrays!
> That's not a built-in. But you were the one who complained about the > way sum() could be applied to a list that contains a non-integer; > maybe your solution is simply to ignore sum() and work with > array.array? Yes i could, however by doing so i would be ignoring the inconsistent elephant in the room. My crusade is to bring consistency and logic to languages, and if i have any free time afterwards, to remove multiplicity. There are two types of people in the world Chris, those that lead and those that follow. > Nice how you can complain about Python for not having something, then > heap scorn on me for not being aware that it's there in the stdlib. > (Which, by the way, I freely admit to being less than fully familiar > with. Even less familiar with what's on PyPI.) Well i would expect anyone who considers himself a python programmer (not to mention "pythonista"!) to at minimum be familiar with the stdlib. That does not mean he must have attained black belt level kung-fu in /every/ stdlib module, but he must at least /know/ all the modules names and all types that Python offers. Is that really too much to ask Chris? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
