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

[Guido van Rossum]

> [Guido]
> > If it's not in the docs, where does everybody get the idea that this
> > is legal?  (The few cases in the std library are unlikely to be the
> > only source; they were in pretty obscure places.)
> 
> [David Ascher]
> > I think you're responsible for a little bit of the confusion.
> <about append working being documentation enough>

[Moshe]
> David, you're taking Guido out of context: he did not say the "append" was
> bad style, but that the "too inclusive excpetion" is bad style.

While that paragraph was placed ambiguously, I *did* mean it to apply
to multi-arg append().  It also applies to "too inclusive exception"
:-)

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