[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r59947 - in python/trunk:Lib/test/test_structseq.py Misc/NEWS (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jan 14 19:50:58 CET 2008


On Jan 14, 2008 10:41 AM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote: > And I see no need for the new sys.flags object to be a tuple at all.

Correct. We don't need item access anymore. However the struct seq should still be slice-able for functions like time.mktime().

Oh, that's a good point. I think it actually doesn't make sense for it to be sliceable without behaving like a sequence in all (or most) aspects.

I don't think this applies to struct stat though; I can never remember the order of the values there, unlike the first 6 of a time tuple, which have an obvious order.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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