Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!)

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> In article <io12ososq8or6t6lgdsclgp5eob5rs8cd7 at 4ax.com>, Ben Wolfson wrote:
> 
> >list() (and tuple()) only work on objects that actually have a sequence
> >mapping makes a lot of sense and, to me, resolves the ambiguity in
> >precisely the way I would expect.
> 
> Is 'sequence mapping' for list() an tuple() defined the same as for the
> 'for' statement: it has a get_item(i) method that returns either a value or
> raises an exception?

Actually, I think these two want an __len__ method too.

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