A Python 3000 Question

Neil Cerutti horpner at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 31 10:13:28 EDT 2007


On 2007-10-31, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Obviously it isn't an absolute thing: lists and dictionaries do
> have other methods in the user namespace, so the decision to
> keep len out of that namespace is partly a judgement call, and
> partly historical (I think tuples didn't used to have any
> methods at all).

Thanks for the interesting note. I didn't know that tuples
originally had no methods. That made len mandatory, I suppose.

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