Feb. 28, 2000
5:19 p.m.
MAL:
Hmm, I'd say it doesn't hurt leaving .append() as it is until 2.0.
/F:
fwiw, I definitely agree. I've spotted too many places where this change cause a program to silently misbehave, rather than blow up (PIL's JPEG plugin is just one example...).
Sigh... This smells of a too-inclusive except clause... Otherwise the program should have raised a clear exception. I suggest to fix it rather than whine... Am I responsible for everybody else's bad coding style? 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.) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)