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On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:
<snip>
> - and ignore the Pythonistas [they're nuts; =C2=A0that x.count() doesn't =
work
> is amazingly stupid].

Eh? It works fine. [5, 2, 2, 1, 2].count(2) =3D=3D 3. If you mean you want
len(x) to be spelled x.count(), that's equally stupid; `count` would
be a lousy name (people would confuse it with what the current
.count() does). `length` or `size` would make much more sense.

Cheers,
Chris