Paul Rubin schrieb: > Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Will tuples also get a sort method? What about append and extend? pop? >> __iadd__? __delslice__? > > They are immutable so they won't get .sort() etc. sorted(...) already > works on them. > >> How many brain cells are actually freed up by not having to remember >> that *one* method that you'd never use doesn't exist? > > I dunno but I do know that Ruby is attracting a lot of potential Python > users because it apparently has fewer of these inconsistencies.
It remains to be proven that it is an inconsistency, rather than a design decision. > A big > web site I hang out on decided to do a software rewrite (currently using > a huge perl script) and evaluated a bunch of possible approaches. In > the final decision, Ruby/Rails won out over Python/Django. Given that so many web sites still decide to (re)write in PHP, I don't think that is much of an argument. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
