Larry Hastings wrote:
On 04/29/2012 02:01 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote:The times, they are a-changin'. I've been meaning to start whacking the things which are iterable which really shouldn't be. Like, who uses destructuring assignment with the os.stat result anymore? Puh-leez, that's so 1996. That really oughta be deprecated.On 4/29/2012 4:41 AM, Larry Hastings wrote:I'd prefer an object to a dict, but not a tuple / structseq. There's no need for the members to be iterable.I agree with you, but there's already plenty of precedent for this.[...] Iteration for these isn't very useful, but structseq is the handiesttype we have:
Why? What problems does it cause? If it isn't broken, don't break it. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com