On Sunday, 8 June 2014 02:27:42 UTC+1, Gregory Ewing wrote: > > Also it doesn't sit well with Python's "one obvious > way to do it" guideline, because it means there are > *two* equally obvious ways to call a function.
This provides a way to do something new (add class-optimized implementations for existing general-purpose functions). It also adds significant readability improvements by putting function-call chains in order. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list