In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >Square brackets indicate the index into a sequence (like a list) >
I'm wary of this line, especially in isolation. I hope it reduces, rather than exacerbates, the original questioner's confusion, for me to observe that [] *also* mark dereferencing into a dictionary (hash, associative array, ...), which is distinct from list indexing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list