On Oct 31, 6:29 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:59:58 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > > Python considers len to be an operator for all intents and purposes. > > Python chose to spell this operator like a regular function, but it > > could easily have given a special syntax to the length operation (for > > instance, $#x). > > I hope you're not serious that $# would make a good operator.
If you happen to know where I borrowed it from, it would be pretty evident that I wasn't being serious. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list