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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 16:50:25 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists
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On 2013-08-08 22:32, Joshua Landau wrote:
> On 8 August 2013 21:03, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> > If .pop were being added today, I would argue against including
> > the index parameter.
> 
> 3) There's always deque for deques

Unless you have pre-2.4 code, in which case I'm glad .pop() was
included (but in this hypothetical world, we'd have a deque in
pre-2.4 too :-D

-tkc