Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> Christian, there was a smiley in your signature, so I can safely
> ignore it, right? It doesn't make sense at all to me to make "abc"[0]
> return 97 instead of "a".
There was a smiley, but for the most since I cannot
decide what I want. I'm quite convinced that strings should
better not be sequences, at least not sequences of strings.
"abc"[0:1] would be enough, "abc"[0] isn't worth the side effects,
as listed in Tim's posting.
ciao - chris
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