[Python-ideas] change list() - branch from "More useful slices"

[Ryan Gonzalez]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:

> On 2 February 2015 at 11:43, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So there would be a discontinuity - list('foo') would have to be ['f',
>> 'o', 'o'] for backward compatibility. And that makes list(*args)
>> problematic, as it behaves differently if len(args)==1.
>>
>
> max() and min() do behave like this - they accept either a single
> iterable, or *args - so it's not unprecedented. But I don't see any benefit
> to adding it to the list() constructor.
>

Because the maximum/minimum of a single value makes absolutely no sense,
but a single-element list does.


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