[Python-3000] a slight change to __[get|set|del]item__

[Just van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On 5/27/06, Just van Rossum <just at letterror.com> wrote:
> > Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 03:15:32PM +0200, tomer filiba wrote:
> > > > which makes it impossible to diffrenciate between
> > > > >>>y[1, 2]
> > > > (1, 2)
> > > >
> > > > and
> > > > >>>y[(1, 2)]
> > > > (1, 2)
> > >
> > > Tuples are not created with parenthesizes. Tuples are created with
> > > a comma. Hence
> > >
> > > 1, 2
> > >
> > >    *is* a tuple. Just as (1, 2).
> >
> > But
> >
> >     foo(1, 2)
> >
> > isn't the same as
> >
> >     foo((1, 2))
> 
> Because the (...) in a function call isn't a tuple.
> 
> I'm with Oleg -- a[x, y] is *intentionally* the same as a[(x, y)].
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FWIW: I wasn't agreeing with Tomer, just pointing out what I think was
his intention, and that Oleg's argument against it doesn't hold, given
how call syntax works.

Just