[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 279 revisited (original) (raw)

Paul Svensson paul@svensson.org
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:57:12 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Is it really a bad idea then to make 'this function' return something useful for mapping types? Yes. Believe me. Don't go there.

So should it explicitly raise a TypeError then, to avoid accidentally returning something (less than) useful ?

my +1 for calling it itemize, btw

/Paul