On Apr 1, 7:06 pm, Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> There is a major clash between the names of ordinals in human languages > and zero-based counting. In human languages, the Nth-ordinal item comes > in position N. You can keep that useful convention with zero-based > counting by inventing the ugly word "zeroth", but that just leads to > bizarro-talk like "the zeroeth item comes first, the first item comes > second, and so on". No, there won't be any bizarro-talk. There is no argument: the zeroeth item comes zeroeth, the first item comes first, and so on. The index for the very zeroeth thing in a list is 0, so to get the zeroeth item you use s[0]. While to get the first item you use s[1]. It's very intuitive, isn't it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list