Donn Cave wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > > There's a historical issue too: when tuples started first being > > used this way in Python, classes had not yet been introduced. > > When was that, old-timer? According to Misc/HISTORY, > Python was first posted to alt.sources at version 0.9.0, > February 1991. It doesn't say 0.9.0 had classes, but > at 0.9.3 we see refinements like __dict__, and it's hard > to imagine that classes themselves snuck in without notice > in the interim. > > If you got a copy of some older version than this, you > have some interesting historical perspectives there, but > not much of a historical issue, I'd say, without much > going on in the way of a user community.
fwiw, the tuple and class implementation were both checked into CVS in october 1990. maybe he's talking about ABC ? (where, judging from the language reference, had lists, compounds, and tables which worked pretty much like Python's lists, tuples, and dictionaries). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
