"Christoph Zwerschke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think it's a problem of false logic but the problem that > "homogenous data" is not defined. > > We probably agree that it usually makes perfect sense to use tuples for > coordinates. But in certain mathematical algorithms it also makes sense > to ask for the number of zero components of a coordinate tuple - the > count() method would be helpful here. > > 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".
>From a practical point of view, the only reason to use a tuple instead of a list for anything seems to be that you want to use it as a key in a dict... Otherwise, why bother with these recalcitrant things that you can't change or index, or append to or anything that lists allow? - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
