Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Showing content from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/1999-July/000584.html below:

[Python-Dev] I'd like list.pop to accept an optional second

• Previous message: [Python-Dev] I'd like list.pop to accept an optional second
• Next message: [Python-Dev] I'd like list.pop to accept an optional second
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Tim Peters wrote:
 > As a function (builtin or not), tryexcept will never get called if
 > list.pop() raises an exception.

M.-A. Lemburg writes:
 > Oh well, forget the whole idea then. list.pop() is really not

  Giving up already?  Wouldn't you just love this as an expression
operator (which could work)?
  How about:

      top = list.pop() excepting IndexError, default

  Hehehe... ;-)


  -Fred

--
Fred L. Drake, Jr.	     <fdrake@acm.org>
Corporation for National Research Initiatives

• Previous message: [Python-Dev] I'd like list.pop to accept an optional second
• Next message: [Python-Dev] I'd like list.pop to accept an optional second
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4