In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 Callooh! Callay! We are delivered from one of the most long-lived and pointless (if minor) warts in an otherwise clean and logical type hierarchy. Thank you, Raymond! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
