On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Well, the proposal was to interpret m[i] as m.group(i), for all values > > of i. I can't see anything confusing with that. > > it can quickly become rather confusing if you also interpret m[:] as > m.groups(), not to mention if you add len() and arbitrary slicing to > the mix. what about m[] and m[i,j,k], btw?
I'd say, don't pretend m is a sequence. Pretend it's a mapping. Then the conceptual issues go away. -- ?!ng _______________________________________________ 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
