[Python-Dev] Shortcut Notation for Chaining Method Calls (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Feb 4 01:51:09 CET 2007
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Michael O'Keefe wrote:
I'm sure there are other ways to do this as well but what do people think? Has something like this come up before?
Yes, this has come up before, and list.sort and list.reverse were identified as the methods people were most likely to want to chain. The sorted() and reversed() builtins were the result.
Also, the spelling you propose creates a horrible confusion when calling a method which already has a real return value (like list.pop).
Cheers, Nick.
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