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[Aahz]

In article <6b4065b0-6af7-4aff-8023-40e5d521faa0 at v19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
Luis Gonzalez  <luismgz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Yes, I know the python approach is to use built-ins.
>But wouldn't it be cool if we could do mydict.values().tolist()
>instead?
>It would be more regular and intuitive and readable from an OO point
>of view.
>In my oppinion, this would be cleaner.
>Built-ins used like this look like an early decission made when
>designing an imperative language.

What kind of language do you think Python is?
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