"a better input"

[Andrew Dalke]

Me:
>> I suppose you're also going to tell me that
>>  [].append(1,2) no longer works?

Louis M. Pecora:
>This is a joke, right?  :-) ?  :-| ?  :-( ?

It's a joke in that I know it changed and that I know that
feature was deprecated something like 8-10 years ago and that
it was not documented as valid.  Were I still using 1.5.2 it
would work, but the likelihood of someone using that feature
in pre-2.0 and realizing it might have been changed in newer
releases without knowing it explicitly from reading the change
log is, I think, quite small.

As such, this limp joke was meant for people who know the
history of changes in Python.  And only people using pre-2.0
would be confused, since you can always try that line out
to see what it says.

It's not a joke in that multi-parameter append truely is no
longer allowed.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com