[Python-Dev] Re: Python-checkins digest, Vol 1 #370 - 8 msgs

[Guido van Rossum]

> > *** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: This changes append(), remove(), index(), and
> > *** count() to require exactly one argument -- previously, multiple
> > *** arguments were silently assumed to be a tuple.
> 
> Not sure about remove(), index() and count(), but the change
> to .append() will break *lots* of code !

Agreed.  But 1.6 is as good a point to break it as any -- what's the
point in putting this off?  This isn't big enough to wait for 2.0.  I
could've done it in the 1.5.x series, but decided not to.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)