On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Deborah Swanson <pyt...@deborahswanson.net> wrote: > I think I'm right that core python sequences can't be indexed in any > fashion by strings, because strings aren't iterable. I suppose it might > be possible for strings to be iterable in some sort of ascii char code > order, but that seems like it could get real whacky very fast, and not > terribly useful.
It's not because they're not iterable, but because there's a fundamental difference between a key-value pair (dict) and a sequence. You can combine the two in several different ways, none of which is the "one most obvious". Python's OrderedDict retains the order of its keys; in contrast, a namedtuple is a "record" type with a fixed set of keys that correspond to positions in the record. In your case, I think a namedtuple would be a good fit, but there's no general concept of indexing a sequence with strings. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
