[Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from a set withoutremoving it

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Jesse Noller <jnoller <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> So far, fiddling with the PEP, I'm on the fence - adding a method to a
>> built-in object type is sort of a grey area (at least in my mind). It
>> depends on if doing so significantly alters the language/syntax.
>
> We have recently added things like float.fromhex() which IMHO shouldn't be
> blocked by the moratorium (*), although they technically add a method to a
> built-in.
>
> (*) it is a minor new feature aimed at catching up with some established
> standard for an exact, non-ambiguous string representation of floats

Okay, so it remains a gray area.

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--Guido van Rossum

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