On 8/6/07, Kevin Jacobs <jacobs at bioinformed.com> <bioinformed at gmail.com> wrote: > I hate to be pedantic, but it is not possible for 2to3 to tell, in general, > that it is safe to elide the list() because the result is used directly in a > for loop (for the usual arguments that use the Halting Problem as a trump > card). Of course not. 2to3 is a pragmatic tool and doesn't really care. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)