On 2/13/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I don't like to add a built-in index() at this point; mostly because > of Occam's razor (we haven't found a need).
I thought you had agreed, back when I had said that __index__ should also be made easily available to implementors of Python-coded classes implementing sequences, more elegantly than by demanding that they code x.__index__() [I can't think offhand of any other special-named method that you HAVE to call directly -- there's always some syntax or functionality in the standard library to call it more elegantly on your behalf]. This doesn't neessarily argue that index should be in the built-ins module, of course, but I thought there was a sentiment towards having it in either the operator or math modules. Alex _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
