[Python-ideas] sequence.apply(function)

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> It's less Pythonic, because every sequence-like type (not just list)
> would have to reimplement it.
>
> Similar things get proposed for iterators (e.g. it1 + it2, it[:n],
> it[n:]) regularly and they are (and should be) rejected for the same
> reason.
>
>
Python causes some confusion because some things are methods and others
builtins. Is there a PEP or rationale that defines what goes where?


Yuval Greenfield
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