On Dec 13, 3:12 am, Eelco <hoogendoorn.ee...@gmail.com> wrote: > But to relate it to the topic of this thread: no, the syntax does not > allow one to select the type of the resulting sequence. It always > constructs a list.
So by this argument, _every_ function that returns a list should take an optional argument to specify an alternative form of sequence. What, exactly, is so onerous about coercing your list to _whatever_ type you want? You know, like everybody else has been. What does this _gain_ you other than one less line of code? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
