Tim Peters wrote:
The "Subscriptions" section of the Reference Manual explicitly allows for
dict[a, b, c]
and explicitly does not allow for
sequence[a, b, c]
I'd thought we'd agreed that nobody reads the reference manual ;-)
What would you like to do, then?
more time to fix it, perhaps? it's surely a minor code change, but fixing it can be harder than you think (just witness Gerrit's bogus patches) after all, python might be free, but more and more people are investing lots of money in using it [1].
The code will be at least as broken a year from now, and probably more so -- unless you fix it.
sure. we've already started. but it's a lot of work, and it's quite likely that it will take a while until we can be 100% confident that all the changes are pro- perly done. (not all software have a 100% complete test suite that simply says "yes, this works" or "no, it doesn't") </F> 1) fwiw, some poor soul over here posted a short note to the pythonworks mailing, mentioning that we've now fixed the price. a major flamewar erupted, and my mail- box is now full of mail from unknowns telling me that I must be a complete moron that doesn't understand that Python is just a toy system, which everyone uses just be- cause they cannot afford anything better...