> The use case has already been discussed. Removing the pointless > inconsistency between lists and tuples means you can stop having to > remember it, so you can free up brain cells for implementing useful > things. That increases your programming productivity.
So to increase consistency, the .index method should be removed from lists, as well, IMO. If you find yourself doing a linear search, something is wrong. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list