*** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: This changes append(), remove(), index(), and *** count() to require exactly one argument -- previously, multiple *** arguments were silently assumed to be a tuple.
Not sure about remove(), index() and count(), but the change to .append() will break *lots* of code !
Agreed. But 1.6 is as good a point to break it as any -- what's the point in putting this off? This isn't big enough to wait for 2.0. I could've done it in the 1.5.x series, but decided not to.
Hmm, I'd say it doesn't hurt leaving .append() as it is until 2.0. This small change will cause lots of trouble because it's hard to find (just like the x = 2L; print x[:-1] thingie, btw)... even though it's easy to fix.
Sigh. It will be just as hard to fix later... I'd really like to take a hard line stance on this one. After all the docs are quite clear.
Note: the CVS cgi.py uses list.append(x,y) too.
Already fixed in CVS. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)