why no 'length' method in sequences ?

[Richard Gruet]

Hi all

I wonder why there is no 'length' (or 'len') method - or attribute - in the
sequences types. Having to use the built-in function len() doesn't sound
very Object-Oriented to me. I understand that the built-in function len()
must be kept for compatibility reasons, but why not to add also the method
len() to the sequence types ? Is there a reason ?

(My apologies if this issue has already been raised. I searched the archives
but found nothing)

Richard Gruet

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