On Wed, Aug 31, 2005, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>
> FWIW, after this is over, I'll put together a draft list of these
> principles. The one listed above has served us well. An early draft of
> itertools.ifilter() had an invert flag. The toolset improved when that
> was split to a separate functio
"Raymond Hettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> FWIW, after this is over, I'll put together a draft list of these
> principles. The one listed above has served us well. An early draft of
> itertools.ifilter() had an invert flag. The toolset improved when that
> > While I'm at it, why not propose that for py3k that
> > .rfind/.rindex/.rjust/.rsplit disappear, and
.find/.index/.just/.split
> grow an
> > optional "fromright" (or equivalent) optional keyword argument?
>
> This violates one of my design principles: don't add boolean options
> to an API that
