On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, it was written: > Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> listx/dictx/setx would be the display forms as well as the constructor >>> forms. >> >> Could these even replace the current forms? If you want the equivalent >> of list(sometuple), write list(*sometuple). > > The current list function is supposed to be something like a typecast:
A what? ;-| > list() = [] > xlist() = [] # ok > > list(list()) = [] # casting a list to a list does nothing > xlist(xlist()) = [[]] # make a new list, not the same > > list(xrange(4)) = [0,1,2,3] > xlist(xrange(4)) = [xrange(4)] # not the same > > list((1,2)) = [1,2] > xlist((1,2)) = [(1,2)] True, but so what? Is it that it has to be that way, or is it just that it happens to be that way now? tom -- It's the 21st century, man - we rue _minutes_. -- Benjamin Rosenbaum -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
