On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Leo Breebaart wrote: > >> Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: >> >>> >>> class Name(str): >>> ... def __repr__(self): >>> ... return self >>> ... >>> >>> apple, pear, dog, cat, fork, spoon = map(Name, "apple pear dog cat >>> >>> fork spoon".split()) >> >> Is there any reason why you introduced the Name class? In Python >> 2.7 this works equally well if I just do: >> >>>>> apple, pear, dog, cat, fork, spoon = map(str, "apple pear dog cat fork >>>>> spoon".split()) >> >> So I was wondering why you used Name. > > I'm wondering why you used map. > > > apple, pear, dog, cat, fork, spoon = "apple pear dog cat fork spoon".split()
Why, in case someone monkeypatched split() to return something other than strings, of course! Sorry, I've been learning Ruby this week, and I fear it may be damaging to my mind... ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
