On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 11:26 AM Steve Jorgensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > From reading many of the suggestions in this list (including some of my own, > of course) there seem to be a lot of us in the Python coder community who > find the current behavior of strings being iterable collections of > single-character strings to be somewhat problematic. At the same time, trying > to change that would obviously have vast consequences, so not something that > can simply be changed, even with at a major version boundary. > > I propose that we start by making a small, safe step in the right direction > so we can maybe reach the bigger goal in a far future release (e.g. 5.x or > 6.x). >
This is assuming that (a) the current behaviour is actually wrong, and (b) it should eventually be changed. Do any of the core devs agree with those two assertions? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IMC5RHXDFJ3ZSD3SHSAM4RJ45MOMRYUN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
