Bengt Richter wrote:Michael Spencer wrote: > While we're on the topic, what do you think of having unary, > non-summary builtins automatically map themselves when called with an > iterable that would otherwise be an illegal argument:
I personally don't much like the idea because I expect 'int' to produce an int, just like I expect 'list' to produce a list. So having 'int' produce an iterable in any situation seems inappropriate to me.
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That last "otherwise" is pretty important for strings as in int('1234') ;-)[snip]
But wouldn't you really currently write the "->" form from above? I.e.,
for ordchar in (ord(c) for c in somestring):
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Thanks for the reactions, (and test implementation, Bengt)
Something to play with, but the idea doesn't seem like a big win, when the explicit genexp is fully general and only slightly more verbose.
Michael
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