[Python-Dev] Re: list += string?? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Aug 27 21:14:50 CEST 2004

damien morton wrote:

Maybe this is the time to thow out the idea that strings arent sequences. Not backwards comaptable, but strings might grow a string.chars property that is a sequence, but strings themselves arent sequences.

I very much doubt users will accept such a change - especially if the rationale is that it is made to prevent a certain class of errors; the change itself is likely to introduce new errors, both for changing the existing code, and for the feature itself. We would need to come up with a type for string.chars, and people would pass that around, recreating the original problem.

I would hope that pychecker could diagnose this kind of problem in many cases.

Regards, Martin

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