On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> wrote:
I apologize for not making myself clear. But that's part of what I meant,
yes: we should preserve the existing behavior of times=-1 when passed in by
position or by keyword. However, we should *also* add a deprecation warning
when passing times=-1 by keyword, suggesting that they use times=None
instead. The idea is that we could eventually remove the PyTuple_Size check
and make times=-1 always behave like times=0. In practice it'd be okay with
me if we never did, or at least not until Python 4.
So we only add deprecation warning to only times=-1 via keyword or for
all negative numbers to times via keyword?
I mean, what about:
from itertools import repeat
list(repeat('a', times=-2))