<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | I would like to have something like "option base" in Visual Basic. | IIRC it used to allow me to choose whether 0 or 1 should be used as | the base of member indices of arrays. In Python, the same can be used | with strings, lists, tuples etc.
If you access a sequence with an iterator, perhaps now the most common case, the index base becomes an irrelevant internal detail. If you only access a sequence with explicit indexes, you can treat it as 1-based by ignoring the first element. This has been a standard conversion technique for a fewdecades. If you do not like writing range(1,n+1), use def myrange(n): return range(1,n+1). Interface conversion wrappers are another standard technique. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
