[Python-Dev] Re: Christmas Wishlist

[Fredrik Lundh]

Raymond wrote:

> I. eval() to accept custom mapping arguments for globals and locals.
> This makes it possible to write a smart __getitem__ method for
> applications like spreadsheets or case-insensitive evaluation.

+0. if you can do it without affecting performance in the dictionary
case, that is.  -1 if you can't.

> II.  Timer.timeit to take an optional context argument.

+1

> III. enumerate to take an optional argument:

+0 (it's not that hard or expensive to add an offset inside the loop)

> IV. list.sorted() to become just sorted().  All of the common use cases
> read better without the "list." prefix:

+1

one more:

V. a join() builtin (join(x,s) becomes s.join(x)).  All of the common sep.join()
use cases read better without the string literal prefix.

(I'll leave the rest for later)

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