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[Python-Dev] Re: New builtins

[Python-Dev] Re: New builtinsM.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:16:56 +0200
Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> 
> tuples(), lists(), dict(), and indices() look pretty generally useful
> to me.  I agree that they look like good candidates for builtins.
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >      irange(object[,indices])
> >          Builds a tuple of tuples (index, object[index]).  If a sequence
> >          indices is given, the indices are read from it.  If not, then
> >          the index sequence defaults to trange(len(object)).
> 
> This one in particular looks really fabulous.  +1 to put this in builtins.
> 
> In order of usefulness (just imho of course):
> 
>      irange     +1
>      tuples     +0.5
>      indices    +0.5
>      dict       +0
>      lists      +0

If you want these in the standard dist, just go ahead and
steal them from mx.Tools -- I don't have time to look into
this right now (and of course I already have them as builtins ;-)

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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