Fredrik Lundh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > so what would an entry-level Python programmer expect from this > > piece of code? > > > > for item in a.reverse(): > > print item > > for item in a.reverse(): > > print item > > > > I would expect it to first print a in reverse then a as it was. > > > > a=[1,2,3] > > > > I expect it to print > > > > 3 > > 2 > > 1 > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > > really? wouldn't > > 3 > 2 > 1 > 3 > 2 > 1 > > make a lot more sense ?
I am not a complete newb at python, but I am still pretty new. I too thought immediately that the output should be 3,2,1, 1,2,3. I used reverse() and sort() a couple time and of course read the docs before I did. I noted they do the change inplace, and don't find rememering that to be a terrible burden. Actually, I get rather annoyed by the comment that they return None "as a reminder" that the change is inplace. How arrogant! While I'm sure the designers had kindly intentions. my memory, though bad, is not that bad, and I object to being forced to write code that is more clunky than need be, because the designers thought they needed to help me with my memory. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
