On Friday, February 28, 2014 11:34:56 PM UTC-6, Ian wrote: > One very common example of tuples containing lists is when lists are > passed to any function that accepts *args, because the extra arguments > are passed in a tuple. A similarly common example is when returning > multiple objects from a function, and one of them happens to be a > list, because again they are returned in a tuple.
> def f(*args): > print(args) > return (args[1:] > > >>> result = f(1, 2, 3, [4, 5]) > (1, 2, 3, [4, 5]) > >>> print(result) > (2, 3, [4, 5]) I agree Ian... good points all. ... again, I'm not arguing with anyone... just saying that an error (whatever we mean by that) should not half-way-fail.... we are only pointing out the problem... we have not idea what the solution is yet. Intuitively everyone can see that there is a problem here... the debate cannot be answered either because of the inherent design of python (almost all of which we love). So, as they say, what is a mother to do? ... I mean, some people's kids... I don't know how I propose to handle the problem... I think the first step is getting everyone to agree that there IS a problem... then debate how to tackle the solution proposals. marcus -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
