Re: [Python-ideas] sequence.apply(function)

On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 00:55:39 +0300 Yuval Greenfield ubershmekel@gmail.com wrote:

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Guido van Rossum guido@python.org wrote:

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It's less Pythonic, because every sequence-like type (not just list) would have to reimplement it.

Similar things get proposed for iterators (e.g. it1 + it2, it[:n], it[n:]) regularly and they are (and should be) rejected for the same reason.

Python causes some confusion because some things are methods and others builtins. Is there a PEP or rationale that defines what goes where?

When something only applies to a single type or a couple of types, it is a method. When it is generic enough, it is a builtin. Of course there are grey areas but that's the basic idea.

Regards

Antoine.