Nicholas Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was just playing around in IDLE at the interactive prompt and typed > in dir({}) for the fun of it. I was quite surprised to see a pop > method defined there. I mean is that a misnomer or what? From the > literature, pop is supposed to be an operation defined for a stack > data structure. A stack is defined to be an "ordered" list data > structure. Dictionaries in Python have no order but are sequences. > Now, does anyone know why the python core has this pop method > implemented for a dictionary type?
Try typing: help({}.pop) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list