[Python-3000] Need help completing ABC pep (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 11:49:54 CEST 2007

Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 4/19/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

On 4/19/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: * "Also pop, popitem, setdefault?"

Eh, my gut reaction is "no". But you do have 'pop' on MutableSequence. But for sequences it trivially maps on core methods. pop() for mappings is a little more convoluted (how to pick a random key? Just pick the first one I guess?)

pop() on dict requires you to say which key to pop, so a concrete Mapping.pop might look something like:

_sentinel=object() def pop(self, k, d=_sentinel): try: v = self[k] except KeyError: if d is _sentinel: raise v = d else: del self[k] return v

I really don't like the name of Finite. When I read the name before knowing what it represented I really had no clue what it represented. In hindsight it makes sense, but it not immediately obvious. I have been playing with Sizeable and Lengthy, but rejected both as being too cute. Other suggestions?

Sized? Still not wonderful, but probably easier to figure out and remember than Finite.

Cheers, Nick.

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