Language change (was RE: iterators (was: python-dev summary))

[Robin Becker]

In article <mailman.982392863.25850.python-list at python.org>, Tim Peters
<tim_one at email.msn.com> writes
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>opened are simply wrong about that (although a couple years' worth of backed
>up ideas got implemented quickly).  Here's the latest one Guido rejected:
>
>http://sourceforge.net/patch/
>    index.php?func=detailpatch&patch_id=103693&group_id=5470
>
>That's for a tiny, fully backward-compatible change, and one that's been
>asked for several times on c.l.py over the years.  If I were the submitter,
...
The language would have been smaller if only lists were allowed, but
that would make a lot of things unsafe/more interesting.
-cults of personality are always wrong-ly yrs- 
Robin Becker