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<div>I understand the view from the poster, most basic list operations are using brackets, ie reading and writing with [], delete with del L[], why not append ?<br>
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<div>And being used extensively, that brackets are annoying.<br>
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<div>And yes, += [] is more "concise" than .append() so some people would think it's more clear because "it's smaller" (they'd be wrong as the OP mentioned).<br>
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But it would break the "There is only one Obvious way to do it" principle.<br>
People would take time to figure out "okay, what should I write ? What's the most Pythonic ?"<br>
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If someone wants to use their own list class, it's doable with the current syntax :<br>
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class List(list):<br>
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def __lshift__(self, x):<br>
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a = List([1,2,7,2])<br>
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a = a << 1 << 5<br>
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a <<= 0<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2018-06-18 1:36 GMT+02:00 Clint Hepner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clint.hepner@gmail.com" target="_blank">clint.hepner@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
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> On Jun 17, 2018, at 4:18 PM, Chris Angelico <<a href="mailto:rosuav@gmail.com" target="_blank">rosuav@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Mikhail V <<a href="mailto:mikhailwas@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikhailwas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> The idea is to introduce new syntax for the list.append() method.<br>
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>> Syntax:<br>
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>> Variant 1.<br>
>> Use special case of index, namely omitted index:<br>
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>> mylist[] = item<br>
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> Creation of syntax cannot be done for just one type.<br>
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</span>That’s false. @ was added solely for matrix multiplication. <br>
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> Regardless, I am still a strong -1 on introducing another way to spell<br>
> list.append().<br>
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</span>-1 as well. Has any one but the proposer shown any support for it yet?<br>
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