[Python-Dev] copy, len and the like as 'object' methods?

[Paul Prescod]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> While it will admittedly take a while, the intention of string methods
> was to eventually phase out the string module.  So TOOWTDI is only
> violated during the transition.

Why wouldn't a similar strategy work for length and string attributes?

>...
> Personally, I don't think that the "problem" this change is addressing
> is worth asking everybody to change their code -- so we'd have live
> with len(x) and x.len() as viable ways to ask for x's length
> *forever*, violating TOOWTDI permanently.  I don't like that.

How was the string methods problem more serious than this one?

I'm not trying to be difficult: I really don't perceive a difference.
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