[Python-3000] Droping find/rfind? (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytmann phd at mail2.phd.pp.ru
Wed Aug 23 16:44:33 CEST 2006
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 07:20:54AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
in py3k I want to rip out lots of "harmless" to make the language smaller. A smaller language is also a feature, and a very important one -- a frequent complaint I hear is that over time the language has lost some of its original smallness, which reduces some of the reasons why people were attracted to it in the first place.
IMHO find() is not a part of the language - it is a part of the standard library. When people complain about the language they AFAIU mean "print >>", [list comprehension], iterators, generators and (generator expressions), @decorators, "with", "case"...
Oleg.
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