8 Jan
2021
8 Jan
'21
11:22 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 10:21 AM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
Not every trivial combination of functions needs to be given a built-in or standard library solution. Especially not if doing so will break backwards compatibility.
"I had three numbers in a tuple, and wanted half of twice the first number added to the difference of the remaining two. What do you think about making `len((a,b,c))` return `(2*a + abs(b - c))/2`?"
*wink*
Certainly not! It should be the square root of the sum of the squares of all the numbers!! ChrisA