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Author hynek
Recipients hynek, loewis, lukasz.langa, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date 2013-08-04.21:26:54
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> But why you want to have a separate function instead of just use two builtins?

This question has been answered twice now, once from Nick – please refer above.

It's a clunky and error-prone solution to a common problem. Maybe you can't emphasize because it's not a common problem to you but that doesn't make it less useful.
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