On Friday, February 28, 2014 7:27:17 PM UTC-6, Eric Jacoboni wrote: > I agree with that too... My error was to first consider the list, then > the tuple... I should have considered the tuple first... > Anyway, the TypeError should rollback, not commit the mistake.
I believe so too, but I'm not one of the core devs. And they do not agree. Ever since day one with me and python I have questioned whether a tuple even makes sense. Well, certainly it does, because it has so much less overhead and yet it acts like a list (which for so many situations thats really what we want anyway... a list, that never changes). Tuples are great, for what they are designed to do. But now consider, why would I purposely want to place a mutable object within an immutable list? A valid question of high importance. Why indeed? I really believe IMHO that the error should have come when you made the list an item of a tuple. An immutable object should have NO REASON to contain a mutable object like list... I mean the whole point is to eliminate the overhead of a list ... why would the python interpreter allow you to place a mutable object within an immutable list in the first place. This is just philosophical, and yes, the core dev's are not going to agree with me on this either. I think the situation is interesting for sure... and it will surface again, you can count on that. Cheers -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
