Thought on PEP 204 and 276

[Steve Horne]

On Tue, 28 May 2002 16:00:12 +0200, holger krekel
<pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote:

>I realize that mapping types and sequence types are quite different
>despite appearances.  It may not be a good idea to blur the lines 
>between these two too much. 

OK.

>It's hardly ever
>the case that you don't (want to) know whether some object is a mapping
>or a sequence type. 

That wasn't the worry so much as knowledge re-use (knowing how to
handle one implying knowing how to handle the other).

It's not a big issue, though.

Thanks for the explanation.

-- 
Steve Horne
steve at lurking.demon.co.uk