On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: > Op 24-11-15 om 20:15 schreef Ian Kelly: > >>> But no matter what you want to call it. The dis module shows that >>> -42 is treated in exactly the same way as 42, which is treated >>> exactly the same way as () or as (5, 8, 13) which is treated >>> differently from [] or [5, 8, 13]. >> >> This is an implementation detail. The compiler would also be free to >> compile -42 into byte code as the negation of the constant 42. That 42 >> is a literal, on the other hand, is part of the language >> specification. > > I think you are picking nits.
Yes. This entire subtopic about literals is picking nits. :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list