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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Robert Collins
<robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> I need input here - where do people use len(), why do they use len(),
> what would the impact of nuking it be? We need this input to build
> better interfaces - ones that scale and perform well.
>

As a webservice user, I use len() on collections to get an accurate
count of the number of things I care about, so I can plot them.

In fact, just the other day someone asked me to make a public burndown
chart of the number of oops & timeout bugs in Launchpad. :P

jml