On 2010-08-19, J.B. Brown <jbbr...@sunflower.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: > When I wrote my own C++ 2-D matrix class, I wrote a member > function which did exactly this - allow you to specify the > initial index value. Then users of my class (mainly my research > lab coworkers) could specify whichever behavior they wanted.
I did something similar in a library that needs to read "positions" from the specification for a fixed-length fields plain text database. The printed specs for these document types often start counting character positions at 1, but not universally. > For those who don't like Python's 0-based indexing, why not > just build a wrapper type which features an item() method that > handles the internal conversion from 1 to 0 as the starting > index? Better yet, include a method which sets/specifies the > 0/1 behavior, and have item() reference the 0/1 setting to > obtain the proper offset. Because they know deep down they wouldn't win anything. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
