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[Python-Dev] breaking list.append() (was: Python-checkins digest, Vol 1 #370

[Python-Dev] breaking list.append() (was: Python-checkins digest, Vol 1 #370 - 8 msgs)Greg Stein gstein@lyra.org
Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:11:01 -0800 (PST)
+1 on breaking it now, rather than deferring it Yet Again.

IMO, there has been plenty of warning, and there is plenty of time to
correct the software.

I'm +0 on adding a warning architecture to Python to support issuing a
warning/error when .append is called with multiple arguments.

-g

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> > MAL:
> > > Hmm, I'd say it doesn't hurt leaving .append() as it is until
> > > 2.0.
> 
> /F:
> > fwiw, I definitely agree.  I've spotted too many
> > places where this change cause a program to
> > silently misbehave, rather than blow up (PIL's
> > JPEG plugin is just one example...).
> 
> Sigh...
> 
> This smells of a too-inclusive except clause...  Otherwise the program
> should have raised a clear exception.  I suggest to fix it rather than
> whine...
> 
> Am I responsible for everybody else's bad coding style?
> 
> If it's not in the docs, where does everybody get the idea that this
> is legal?  (The few cases in the std library are unlikely to be the
> only source; they were in pretty obscure places.)
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> 
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-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/




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