On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:43:31 +0000, Steve Lamb wrote: > The quick answer is that tuples can be indexes into directories > while lists cannot.
A note on terminology: the things inside curly brackets {} are called dictionaries, or dicts, not directories. And the things you use to store data in dictionaries are called keys, not indexes: # Lists have indexes: L = ['x', 'y', 'z'] L[0] # returns the item in position 0 # Dicts have keys: D = {'a': 'x', 2: 'y', 7.8: 'z'} D['a'] # returns the item with key 'a' -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list