[Python-Dev] I'd like list.pop to accept an optional second

[Fred L. Drake]

>>>>> "JF" == Jim Fulton <jim@digicool.com> writes:
    JF> BTW, a good precedent for what I want
    JF> is getattr.

    JF>   getattr(None,'spam')

    JF> raises an error, but:

    JF>   getattr(None,'spam',1)

    JF> returns 1

Barry A. Warsaw writes:
 > Fred, the built-in-funcs doc needs updating:


  This is done in the CVS repository; thanks for pointing out the
oversight!

  Do people realize that pop() already has an optional parameter?
That *is* in the docs:

    http://www.python.org/docs/current/lib/typesseq-mutable.html

See note 4 below the table.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	     <fdrake@acm.org>
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