fixing map(None, [1,2,3]) ?

[Donn Cave]

Quoth "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh at valinux.com>:
|
| On 26-Mar-2001 Mike Coleman wrote:
| > Shouldn't "map(None, [1,2,3])" return "[(1,), (2,), (3,)]"?
| > 
| > Is there any hope that this could be fixed?
| > 
|
| map runs the function on each element of the list it is passed and returns an
| element of a new list.  Why should it magically return a list of one-tuples?

It would be more consistent.  Right now this is a special case -
any other number N of input lists, where N != 1, returns a list of
N-tuples.

But it's also a common case, and "fixing" it would surely break lots
of code.  Can't even see how the fixed version would be more useful.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu