[Python-Dev] Q: why doesn't list.extend use the sequence interface?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Fredrik Lundh writes:
 > if I don't hear anything, I'll post patches later this weekend.

  Sounds good to me!  If lists and tuples are special cased, it
shouldn't even matter if the sequence API is too slow -- that's new
functionality for [].extend(), and can be optimized later if it needs
to be.


  -Fred

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