On Mar 27, 8:29 pm, John Ladasky <lada...@my-deja.com> wrote: > Simple question. I use these functions much more frequently than many > others which are included in __builtins__. I don't know if my > programming needs are atypical, but my experience has led me to wonder > why I have to import these functions.
I rarely use them (for things like lists I use list() constructor to copy, and for most class instances I usually don't want a straight copy of all members), but I wouldn't have a problem if they were builtin. They make more sense than a lot of builtins. I'd guess the main reason they're not builtin is that they aren't really that simple. The functions make use of a lot of knowledge about Python types. Builtins tend to be for straightforward, simple, building-block type functions. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
