In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> 
|> > The point is that an index method makes sense on ANY data structure that
|> > can be subscripted by an integer value but, for reasons that aren't at
|> > all clear, is not defined for Python tuples.  There is no technical or
|> > mathematical reason why it shouldn't be.
|> 
|> so where would you put such an "index" implementation so it would work on
|> ANY data structure that can be subscripted by an integer value ?

In the same place you put the subscription method, clearly.  I really
don't see the problem.  I can see that it has not been done because
Guido and others felt that it wasn't worth doing, but not that it is
hard to do.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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