Kay Schluehr wrote: > Well, I want to offer a more radical proposal: why not free squared > braces from the burden of representing lists at all? It should be > sufficient to write > >>>>list() > list() > > After being free one can use them for other purposes e.g. replacing the > ugly @ decorator character by the lovely [ .. ] notation or other > important features no one never trusted to implement waiting for the > right syntax sugar. More than this round braces together with lists can > be considered as a concession to the LISP programmer who was repelled > from Python by the decision to eliminate functional programming > features.
Heh heh. So how do I write a list literal then? Or do we only get tuple literals in Python 3.0. ;) STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list