Steven D'Aprano wrote: > It isn't often that I make an appeal to authority, but this is one of > them. No offense, but when it comes to language design its a brave or > foolish programmer who bucks the language idioms that Guido chose.
Well, it's pretty clear you consider some abstact notion of unity of style more important than practical considerations of how your data is used. In that case you might as well just go with what the authority tells you to. (And hope that your users don't do much numerical stuff.) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list