Sequence splitting

Pablo Torres N. tn.pablo at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 08:34:20 EDT 2009


On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 06:01, Paul Moore<p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/3 Brad <schickb at gmail.com>:
>> Perhaps true, but it would be a nice convenience (for me) as a built-
>> in written in either Python or C. Although the default case of a bool
>> function would surely be faster.
>
> The chance of getting this accepted as a builtin is essentially zero.
> To be a builtin, as opposed to being in the standard library,
> something has to have a very strong justification.

That's right.  Mr. schickb, I think what you need is a few concrete
examples as to where this function would be beneficial, so it can be
judged objectively.

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Pablo Torres N.



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