Range Operation pre-PEP

[Fredrik Lundh]

Rainer Deyke wrote:

> And what a ridiculous claim that was.

you're attacking douglas's misrepresentation of ben's original claim
with an argument that has nothing whatsoever to do with what ben
was talking about.  that's pretty ridiculous too, if you're asking me.

> The contents of 'args' are almost certainly homogeneous.

erm.  since when are the arguments to a function almost certainly
homogenous?

ben's right.  tuples are records, lists are containers.  anyone who
has written (or studied) real-life python programs knows that.

Cheers /F