In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Alan Isaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I said: > I doubt that *anyone* who programs in Python > has not encountered the situation where they change > a tuple to a list *solely* for the purpose of getting > access to the index method. This suggests a missing > method, does it not? Who has not done this? > Name yourself! I am pleased to find myself in this company. My name is Donn Cave. I have been using Python since version 1.1, though frankly I haven't used it a lot in recent years. I have a confession to make, though. Early in my career, I used to do the opposite - given a list, I would sometimes convert it to a tuple because I had some notion that once its contents were fixed, a list would be more economically and robustly represented as a tuple. This was an error in my thinking, on a couple of levels, and I quit doing that fairly early on. Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
