On 2 Mar, 19:06, Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On April 12th, 2007 at 10:05 PM Alan Isaac wrote: > > > The avoidance of tuples, so carefully defended in other > > terms, is often rooted (I claim) in habits formed from > > need for list methods like ``index`` and ``count``. > > Indeed, I predict that Python tuples will eventually have > > these methods and that these same people will then defend > > *that* status quo.
You were more confident about this than I was. Still, nothing happens if no-one steps up to do something about it. > <URL:http://python.org/download/releases/2.6/NEWS.txt> > > - Issue #2025 : Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() > > methods to comply with the collections.Sequence API. Here's the tracker item that may have made it happen: http://bugs.python.org/issue1696444 I think you need to thank Raymond Hettinger for championing the cause. ;-) Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list