Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> writes: > According to a narrow definition of indexed access. I would say that > d[k] is index access even if d is a dict and k a key.
An index implies the ordinal position in a sequence. In a mapping, the key is *not* referring to the position in a sequence, so is not a key. So accessing an item in a mapping by key is not indexed access. -- \ “When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing.” | `\ —Francis of Assisi | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
