Very wise. I am a tournament Bridge player, and one of the things I say to my partners is: "Bidding is very simple. When you have something to say, say it (unless it really seems too dangerous). When you have nothing to say, Pass".I lurk around here a lot more than I actually post
+1-- But in this case I find myself weighing in firmly on the side of "please don't add this". It'd just add noise in the documentation and __builtins__ namespace. There are millions of useful functions that could be added to the `list` object (or to the `__builtins__` namespace). It's the job of the core dev team to decide which are the most useful for everybody and this is one where (in my opinion) the usefulness doesn't justify the additional clutter.
It seems like the primary argument for this is that some users would like to have this functionality baked into an interactive session. If that's the case, then I'd like to point out that if you find yourself wanting this in an interactive session frequently there is an interactive startup file that you can modify so that this function will always be available to you whenever you start up an interactive session (and you can put whatever else in there that you like as well :-).
I hope that helps.
PYTHONSTARTUP (mostly to
pre-import modules that I use frequently: sys, time, datetime, os,
etc. - YMMV). But your reminder may well prod me into finding new
uses.