Nov. 30, 2000
11:33 a.m.
Guido van Rossum: [...]
Thinking aloud:
Would it be useful to also implement popkey(), popvalue(), popitem(), which would remove the first item and then return the relevant part of it?
Since [].pop() takes in optional index as parameter which defaults to the *LAST* element, it would be better to make the name explicit: .popfirstitem() This is however some what long. DEJAVU: the {}.setdefault() discussion. May it is better to leave these methods out for the sake of simplicity, although they look useful. Regards, Peter