"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Aside from the problem of not being able to delete the underlying object, > the view object for a tuple would have to be a new type of object with a > new set of methods.
It *could*, but it doesn't have to. One can represent a view as essentially an object with a pointer to a memory buffer and a (start,stop,step) triple. Then a "real tuple" is just a "view" with the triple being (0, len(sequence), 1). George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
