Re: computing with characters




"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht news:mailman.365.1209541507.12834.python-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
En Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:19:22 -0300, SL <ni@xxxxxxx> escribió:
And that's a very reasonable place to search; I think chr and ord are builtin functions (and not str methods) just by an historical accident. (Or is there any other reason? what's wrong with "a".ord() or str.from_ordinal(65))?

yes when you know other OO languages you expect this. Anyone know why builtins were chosen? Just curious

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Gabriel Genellina


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