[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r59947 - in python/trunk:Lib/test/test_structseq.py Misc/NEWS

[Guido van Rossum]

On Jan 14, 2008 2:19 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Correct. We don't need item access anymore. However the struct seq
> > should still be slice-able for functions like time.mktime().
>
> Can you please explain that? What application do you have in mind?

Well, mktime() assumes its argument to be a tuple, and there are
plenty of places that either emulate its API (like calendar.timegm())
or provide a tuple for it. I wouldn't want to lose the ability to
manually construct a tuple to go into mktime() and friends.

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