BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > On 2/15/07, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I guess we differ on what is obvious. This seems obvious to me: >> >> [1] + (1,) => [1, 1] >> (1,) + [1] => (1, 1) > > I agreed with you up to this point. But this seems more obvious to me: > > [1] + (1,) => [1, 1] > (1,) + [1] => [1, 1] > > In other languages and situations, types are widened, 1 + 1.0 = 1.0 + > 1.0. And list is "wider" than tuple. >
They are widened by information content, not functionality. Tuples don't have any more information content than lists. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
