Christoph Zwerschke wrote: > The statement "if you are looking for index() or count() for your > tuples, you're using the wrong container type" is too extreme I think. I > would agree with "it *may indicate* that you should better use lists".
And also if that statement was correct, I would argue that Python uses the wrong container type for storing positional arguments. More often that not, when ones uses *varargs, he expects a homogeneous container of extra arguments. There are exceptions of course (e.g. range()) where each of the expected *varargs has distinct semantics, but from my experience these are far less common than the unlimited-extra-arguments case. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
