tuple.index()

[Nick Maclaren]

In article <mailman.1605.1166111433.32031.python-list at python.org>,
"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:
|> 
|> > The point is that an index method makes sense on ANY data structure that
|> > can be subscripted by an integer value but, for reasons that aren't at
|> > all clear, is not defined for Python tuples.  There is no technical or
|> > mathematical reason why it shouldn't be.
|> 
|> so where would you put such an "index" implementation so it would work on
|> ANY data structure that can be subscripted by an integer value ?

In the same place you put the subscription method, clearly.  I really
don't see the problem.  I can see that it has not been done because
Guido and others felt that it wasn't worth doing, but not that it is
hard to do.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.