Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > 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.
The sense of “index” implied is used consistently throughout Python <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html> to refer to the integer ordinal position in a sequence. It is not compatible with key access into a mapping. > 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. “the key … is not an index”, I mean. > So accessing an item in a mapping by key is not indexed access. -- \ “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” —Aldous | `\ Huxley | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
