list vs tuple

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Thu Apr 5 21:10:14 EDT 2001


On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:50:27AM +0000, deadmeat wrote:

> I'm so used to treating bytes (or char's) as 8 (or 7) bits alone.  Having a
> high level language such as Python automagically wrap basic data types into
> objects without me having to do it seems unnatural, given my background.

Sorry, but this boggles me. You choose for a high level language (in fact,
for a *very* high level language) but you *don't* want it to do highlevel
stuff for you. That's.... inconsistent.

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