22 Jul
1999
22 Jul
'99
9:36 p.m.
"Gordo" == Gordon McMillan
writes:
Gordo> Which are you asking for: breaking code that expects Gordo> IndexError Violating Pythonic expectations by, in effect, Gordo> creating 2 methods Gordo> list.pop(void) Gordo> list.pop(default_return) The docs /do/ say that list.pop() is experimental, so that probably gives Guido all the out he'd need to change the semantics :). I myself have yet to use list.pop() so I don't know how disasterous the change in semantics would be to existing code. -Barry