Adding item in front of a list

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> I *hate* the few places in the Nutshell in which
> I couldn't explain a function's behavior by means of Pythonic "optional
> arguments", but rather had to resort to brackets meaning "optional"

Maybe Python should in general allow optional arguments to
be on the left instead of the right:

   def myrange(start = 0, stop):
     ...

and then range() and insert() wouldn't be anomalous!

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg