"Kent Johnson" <ken...@tds.net> wrote
To actually *constrain* a collection to be homogeneous seems
extremely
un-pythonic. In actual fact all containers can hold whatever you
want
to put in them without restriction (except hashability requirements
for sets and dict keys).
And strings which are kind of a collection but only hold characters...
Personally I like to think of Python collections as being like
Smalltalk
or ObjectiveC collections. They hold objects. And since everything is
a subclass of object they hold anything... It doesn't work completely
but it mostly keeps me sane... :-)
But it does mean that anything more fine grained than object is
down to the programmer.
Alan G.
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