Dec. 24, 2022
4:35 a.m.
On Sat, 24 Dec 2022 at 13:15, Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> wrote:
wording that clarifies whether x.upper() uppercases the string in-place?
Well, it says "a copy", so I'd say it's clear.
My question was more: do you know, or do you have to look? I'll take another example. Take the list.index() method, which returns the index where a thing can be found. *Without checking first*, answer these questions: 1) Will identical-but-not-equal values (eg the same instance of nan) be found? 2) Do the docs and/or docstring tell you the answer to question 1? And then a logical followup: 3) If your answer to question 1 was incorrect, {does it help, would it have helped} to have a note in the docs? ChrisA