Frank Samuelson wrote: > I love Python, and it is one of my 2 favorite > languages. I would suggest that Python steal some > aspects of the S language.
I generally agree with the various naye-sayers, but find one argument missing: > ------------------------------------------------------- > 2. Allow sequences to be indices: > >>> s=["hello", 6, 33, "none"] > >>> x= [1,3] > >>> [ s[y] for y in x] # Current verbose version > [6, 'none'] > >>> s[x] # Simpler, clearer, more productive > > To quote a poster at http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread22741.html, > "While we are at it, I also don't understand why sequences can't be > used as indices. Why not, say, l[[2,3]] or l[(2, 3)]? Why a special > slice concept? " Isn't that unpythonic? Right now, after: which_corner = {} corner = {} for n, position in enumerate([(1,1), (1,5), (3,5), (3,1)]): corner[n] = position which_corner[position] = n which_corner[1,5] returns 1 I would hate to have to know whether which_corner is a dictionary or a list before I can decide whether this is iteration. -Scott David Daniels Scott,[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
