Warren Stringer wrote: > I'm still a bit new at this, was wondering why c[:]() doesn't work, and > implicitly wondering why it *shouldn't* work.
It does work. It means "make a sliced copy of `c`, and then call it with no arguments." Functionally that is _no different_ from `c()`, which means "take `c` and call it with no arguments," because presuming `c` is a list, `c[:]` makes a shallow copy. So if you think `c()` and `c[:]()` should do something different in this case, you are profoundly confused about Python's semantics of what objects are, what it means to shallow copy a list, and what it means to make a function call. That you keep including the slice suggests that there's something about its meaning that's not yet clicking. If you really want syntax where a function call on a container calls all of its elements, then that is trivially easy to do by creating such an object and overriding its `__call__` method. If you're not willing to do that, but still insisting that `c[:]()` makes sense, then perhaps it would be more advisable to learn more about Python rather than try to suggest profound changes to the language and its conventions. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
