[Tutor] Not Really Questions

[John Connors]

G'day,

While the list is kind of slow I thought I'd post a few thoughts on a couple 
of things in Python that bug me. They're not really questions but maybe 
someone can help me understand.

The first one is lists... I can't for the life of me understand why a list 
starts at zero. In everything else in life other than programming the 1st 
item in a list is always 1.

The next thing I don't understand is why the last number in a range is not 
used...

For a in range(1,6):
    print a,

1 2 3 4 5

Once again it defies the logic of everything else we are taught in life.

The 3rd whinge is object oriented programming. I think I understand the 
principle behind OOP but in practise, to me, it just makes programs jumbled, 
unreadable and bloated. Just about every summary I have read on Python says 
it is designed to have a simple syntax and is easy to learn. As a beginner I 
can look at Python code and have a very good idea of what is happening and 
why unless it's written in OOP style in which case I have no idea.

John

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