On 2009-05-23 16:05, walterbyrd wrote:
On May 22, 12:22 pm, "Rhodri James"
How do you know how a string object is going to be treated by any
given function? Read the Fine Manual for that function.
So am I to understand that there is no consistency in string handling
throughout the standard modules/objects/methods?
Seems to make python a lot more complicated than it needs to be, but
okay.
*Any* language would have such issues. Different functions do different things
to its inputs. That's why you have different functions. I certainly wouldn't
want my HTML parser to treat its inputs as if they were regular expressions.
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that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
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