Greg Stein wrote:
Note that Guido posted a note to c.l.py on Monday. I believe that meets your notification criteria.
ahem. do you seriously believe that everyone in the Python universe reads comp.lang.python? afaik, most Python programmers don't. ... so as far as I'm concerned, this was officially deprecated with Guido's post. afaik, no official python documentation has explicitly mentioned this (and the fact that it doesn't explicitly allow it doesn't really matter, since the docs don't explicitly allow the x[a, b, c] syntax either. both work in 1.5.2). has anyone checked the recent crop of Python books, btw? the eff-bot guide uses old syntax in two examples out of 320. how about the others? ... sigh. running checkappend over a 50k LOC application, I just realized that it doesn't catch a very common append pydiom. how fun. even though 99% of all append calls are "legal", this "minor" change will break every single application and library we have :-( oh, wait. xmlrpclib isn't affected. always something! </F>