On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Matt Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Roger! > > I had written something fairly similar already. I really wish there > was some validator decorator that would coerce the values into lists > for me. Likewise, I wish the kwargs object was a special dictionary > that supported a "get_as_list" method. > > IMHO, the python world should rethink making strings iterable. I > would prefer that you had to cast a string into some "iterable string" > type before iterating across it.
They did, for Python 3000. In fact, Guido implemented it. Then he found out that it broke a LOT of things--not just in terms of backwards compatibility of source code, but it in terms of how one designs for strings. The gory details are here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/000759.html Guido's last message on the topic sums it up: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/000883.html "This change just isn't going to happen. It's pushing up the daisies. It's joined the choir invisible. THIS IS AN EX-PROPOSAL!" :-) -- Tim Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
