Roy Smith wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Roy Smith wrote: >> >>> The struct does lookup by name, the tuple is inherently index based. >> I was trying to help people understand the distinction >> we're talking about by showing an example of the same >> distinction in another language where it's much clearer. >> >> There are a great many ways in which C structs are >> different from Python tuples, and C arrays are different >> from Python lists. But they're not the aspects I'm >> drawing an analogy between. >> >> -- >> Greg > > Well, yeah, but it's kind of like saying "a tangerine and an orange are > very different things because one of them is like an apple and the other > one is like a pear" :-)
Actually, I found the distinction a bit more helpful than that--more like saying, "a tangerine and a pear are very different things because one of them is like an orange and the other is like an apple." Still not a precise definition, but a useful analogy in many ways. Cheers, Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
