[Edu-sig] Brainstorming a new worksheet for 2006

[Scott David Daniels]

kirby urner wrote:
> ...
> Python:
>    shell mode
>    primitive objects vs. collections
> Collections:
>    list
>    dictionary
>    string
>    tuple

'd move string out of Collections.  It cannot have elements of a
different type (there is no character type), nor is it mutable.
Better to be more standard and not call it a collection.  Later
you can say it behaves in some ways like an ordered list of the
individual characters in the string.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org