Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jason wrote: > > > The reason why the exception is more Pythonic is that the return > > value is always a guaranteed good index into the list. > > How do you explain dict.get, then?
I explain it by noting that list.index and dict.get serve totally different purposes. The former returns the index given a value; the latter returns a value given a key. There are many areas of poor symmetry in the language and libraries; it isn't particularly clever or difficult to find them if one looks. Doing so doesn't appear to illustrate any point I see relevant in this thread. -- \ "If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and | `\ then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off | _o__) right away." -- Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
