mxTools (was Re: why no "do : until"?)

[Alex Martelli]

"Simon Brunning" <SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk> wrote in message
news:mailman.978711906.28690.python-list at python.org...
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> Marc Lemburg's mxTools includes an indices function - indices(a) is
> synonymous with range(len(a)).

...which reminds me: why no PEPs about adding to Python's core some
of the nicest ideas in Lemburg's neat mxTools...?  I assume there must
be a reason (e.g., Guido must already have seen them all and decided
they don't belong in the core, or something), but I'd like to know...


Alex