"Ron Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (I was wondering why list's couldn't have len,min, and max attribute > that are updated when ever the list is modified in place of using > len,min, and max functions?
Python's list and, I believe, other builtin roster objects do have a C-level length attribute. For mutables, it is updated. __len__ is just a get of int value the and conversion to int object. Min and max are defined and sensible for only a subset of lists, and when they are, are very seldom need repeated updates. > Would the overhead be that much?) For the fraction of times used, yes. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
