terminological obscurity

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-05-21, Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote:

>> For example, why shouldn't index() find an object in a
>> non-homogeneous sequence? Either the object is in the sequence or
>> it's not. If it is, there is an index that corresponds to it.
>
> For example,
>   tm = time.localtime(time.time())
>   i = tm.index(5)
>
> What would that mean?
>
> It's absurd to search for the location of a value in a tuple,
> because the values don't have any meaning independent of their
> location.

OK, I see what you mean.  That brings up the question of why
use integer indexes to access members of of a group of objects
when the order of the objects is meaningless?

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