R. David Murray added the comment: Perhaps it would be better to say that "the argument may be any object with a __len__, such as the commonly used Python sequence and container types str, bytes, tuple, list, dict, and set". After all, there are other built in types it works on as well: bytearray, frozenset, memoryview.
For the other, "the number of items in a sequence or container type" would mostly cover it, but at the cost of being a bit obscure. Perhaps that's OK for the help text, though, since it is supposed to be a reminder, not the full documentation. Another even more obscure alternative would be "the number of items in a Sized object", which would also be more accurate (since an object with a __len__ doesn't *have* to conform fully to the sequence or container ABCs...nor does a container *have* to implement __len__). ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19362> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
