[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with: >>>> y[1,3] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ? > TypeError: list indices must be integers > > The error message gave me no clue as to what I was doing wrong (in > my mind, I was just writing out the elements of a range), and I > thought perhaps that my inclusion of a comma was the problem.
You thought correct. List indices must be integers, not tuples. > Perhaps a more explicit error message would have helped. Why? You thought the right thing. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list