"Larry Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Once it is in everyone is hesitant to take it out for fear of > breaking someone's code that uses it (no matter how obscure). > Putting in new methods should be difficult and require lots > of review for that reason and so we don't have language bloat. > > Larry Bates
Language bloat is subjective of course, but I fail to see why putting in dict.reset and dict.add should be harder than, say, str.swapcase or str.capitalize. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list