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I like Nick's original idea for a handful of convenience functions but want to caution against adding a bunch of tools that start guessing at what you want. Adding automatic wildcard expansion, shell quoting/splitting and whatnot can make the module more arcane and harder to learn and remember.
Please adopt a conservation approach adding the minimal set that has been shown to be necessary. We can take these tools away if they turn out to have been a bad idea. It is much easier to add cruft than to take it away. In the itertools module, a number of tools started their life as just a recipe in the docs and only became builtin after having proved their worth and having proved their API. |
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2011-11-15 21:12:46 | rhettinger | set | recipients:
+ rhettinger, ncoghlan, pitrou, eric.araujo, alex, cvrebert |
2011-11-15 21:12:46 | rhettinger | set | messageid: <1321391566.18.0.165927703284.issue13238@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2011-11-15 21:12:45 | rhettinger | link | issue13238 messages |
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