[Python-ideas] Make obj[] valid syntax?
Oleg Broytmann
phd at phd.pp.ru
Wed Nov 14 20:00:57 CET 2007
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
> Oleg Broytmann schrieb:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 07:29:52PM +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
> >> 'obj[]' should behave like 'obj[()]' does:
> >
> > I remember it was discussed and rejected a year or two ago. Still -1
> > from me. Explicit [()] is better than implicit [].
>
> However: obj[(1, 2, 3)] is the same as obj[1, 2, 3]
1, 2, 3 is a tuple, and () is a tuple, should there be a syntax for an
empty tuple without parenthesis?
Thomas, there were many arguments in the previous discussion. This one
was there, too. But finally the proposal was rejected.
Oleg.
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