[Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from a set withoutremoving it (original) (raw)

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 21:26:51 CET 2009


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

I'm beginning to think maybe adding a method to a built-in object type should fall under the moratorium.

Another possible test case for this decision is the int.from_bytes and int.to_bytes methods, proposed a while ago, and implemented by Alexandre Vassalotti. See:

http://bugs.python.org/issue1023290

Mark



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