On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Xavier Ho <cont...@xavierho.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> >> Nanjundi meant "index method" as in "a method .index()" (i.e. a method >> named "index") which searches through the container for the given item >> and returns the index of the first instance of said item, like >> list.index() does. >> > Interesting interpretation.. but I just gave it a try. > >>>> a = (1,2,3,4) >>>> a > (1, 2, 3, 4) >>>> a.index(3) > 2 >>>> a.index(5) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > ValueError: tuple.index(x): x not in tuple > > So my Python is saying that tuples do implement .index() method. What gives? > > Or maybe the diveintopython version he's quoting is out of date?
Apparently...or something stranger. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
