brad wrote: > a_string.list() instead of list(a_string)
A string can be stripped, "lowercased" or split, but why should it be able to be "listed"? IMHO, list is a conversion function to make a list from something. >> And to answer the question. In OO programming generic functions >> are no less important than classes and objects. > > Do they not take away from the OOness of the overall language and > introduce inconsistencies? Not at all. Explain, why should they? Functions can be objects, too. And are in Python. The inconsistencies arise, IMHO, if an OO language introduces non-object types for performance reasons, after that gets wrapper classes to wrap those primitives, and even later gets the ability to automatically cast a primitive into a wrapper class instance. That's just ugly. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #56: Electricians made popcorn in the power supply -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
