Feb. 29, 2000
7:14 a.m.
[Guido]
If it's not in the docs, where does everybody get the idea that this is legal? (The few cases in the std library are unlikely to be the only source; they were in pretty obscure places.)
[David Ascher]
I think you're responsible for a little bit of the confusion. <about append working being documentation enough>
[Moshe]
David, you're taking Guido out of context: he did not say the "append" was bad style, but that the "too inclusive excpetion" is bad style.
While that paragraph was placed ambiguously, I *did* mean it to apply to multi-arg append(). It also applies to "too inclusive exception" :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)