__setitem__ puzzle

[Anton Vredegoor]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:

>> I have subclassed the builtin list type to accept tuples for indexing.
>
>...apparently to deal with nested lists, if I read you right.  I don't
>like that; I've long thought that L[seq] should be [L[x] for x in seq],
>and L[seq]=seq1 should be like
>
>    for i, v in zip(seq, seq1): L]i] = v
>
>with the added constraint that len(seq) == len(seq1).

See the other post for some context for this class. I hope you'll like
it more after seeing that. However it's already too late to not start
writing it. (see Dijkstra's quote earlier in this thread).

Anton