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Tue Feb 14 14:03:39 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/060906.html

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> There's also the consideration for APIs that, informally, accept
>> either a string or a sequence of objects.
>
> My preference these days is not to design APIs that
> way. It's never necessary and it avoids a lot of
> problems.

Oh yes.

Cheers,
mwh

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