In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote: > > > The struct does lookup by name, the tuple is inherently index based. > > I was trying to help people understand the distinction > we're talking about by showing an example of the same > distinction in another language where it's much clearer. > > There are a great many ways in which C structs are > different from Python tuples, and C arrays are different > from Python lists. But they're not the aspects I'm > drawing an analogy between. > > -- > Greg Well, yeah, but it's kind of like saying "a tangerine and an orange are very different things because one of them is like an apple and the other one is like a pear" :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
