On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:10:21 GMT, Ron_Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:06:11 -0500, "George Sakkis" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>I'm getting off-topic here, but it strikes me that strings have so many >>methods (some of which are >>of arguable utility, e.g. swapcase), while proposing two useful methods >>(http://tinyurl.com/5nv66) >>for dicts -- a builtin with a considerably smaller API than str -- meets so >>much resistance. Any >>insight ? >> >>George >> > >I did a quick check. > >>>> len(dir(str)) >63 >>>> len(dir(int)) >53 >>>> len(dir(float)) >45 >>>> len(dir(dict)) >40 >>>> len(dir(list)) >42 >>>> len(dir(tuple)) >27 > >We need more tuple methods! jk ;) > >Looks like the data types, strings, int an float; have more methods >than dict, list, and tuple. I would expect that because there is more >ways to manipulate data than is needed to manage containers. > More data: >>> for n,k in sorted((len(dir(v)),k) for k,v in ((k,v) for k,v in >>> vars(__builtins__).items() ... if isinstance(v, type))): print '%4s: %s' %(n,k) ... 12: basestring 12: object 13: classmethod 13: staticmethod 14: enumerate 15: reversed 16: super 16: xrange 17: slice 18: property 23: buffer 27: tuple 27: type 34: file 34: open 37: frozenset 40: dict 42: list 45: float 48: complex 50: set 53: bool 53: int 53: long 60: unicode 63: str Hm, I guess that includes inheritance, and they should be callable, so maybe (not researched) >>> for n,k in sorted((sum(callable(m) for k,m in vars(v).items()),k) ... for k,v in ((k,v) for k,v in vars(__builtins__).items() ... if isinstance(v, type))): print '%4s: %s' %(n,k) ... 1: basestring 4: classmethod 4: enumerate 4: staticmethod 5: reversed 5: super 6: property 6: slice 7: xrange 9: bool 10: object 10: type 16: buffer 19: tuple 22: file 22: open 30: frozenset 33: dict 35: list 38: float 39: complex 44: set 46: int 46: long 53: unicode 56: str Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
