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General question about Python design goals

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Nov 28 11:10:31 EST 2005 
In article <1133192617.047862.104920 at o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
>
>In this case, I rather agree with the pragmatic responses earlier in
>the thread: that it was probably an oversight that tuples lack the
>count, index and (arguably) sorted methods, and that patches would
>probably be welcome to rectify this state of affairs. 

You're wrong.  I don't have time/energy to look up the relevant posts,
but Guido has been extremely clear in the past that tuples are *NOT*
going to grow methods.
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