On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > MRAB <python <at> mrabarnett.plus.com> writes: >> >> It's called a 'subscript' because conventional mathematical notation >> uses subscripting. Newbies might be acquainted with the term 'index' >> from books, where the 'value' is non-numeric. It's a bit unfortunate >> that dicts have keys+value instead of index+value! > > Well, "index" for me points to the mathematical notion of an index, which > AFAIK > is always numeric. So it would be a mistake to use that term for dicts.
'Key' and 'index' refer to semantics. 'Subscript' refers to syntax. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
