April 4, 2000
5:42 a.m.
[Guido, on changing socket.connect() to require a single arg]
... Similar to append(), I may revert the change if it is shown to cause too much pain during beta testing...
I think this one already caused too much pain: it appears virtually everyone uses the two-argument form routinely, and the reason for getting rid of that seems pretty weak. As Tres Seaver just wrote on c.l.py, Constructing a spurious "address" object (which has no behavior, and exists only to be torn apart inside the implementation) seems a foolish consistency, beyond doubt. So offer to back off on this one, in return for making 1/2 yield 0.5 <wink>.