On Jun 19, 10:17 pm, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Banks wrote:
> > Tuples will have an index method in Python 2.6.
>
> > I promise I won't indiscriminately use tuples for homogenous data.
> > Honest. Scout's honor. Cross my heart.
>
> Use them as you want. This change came about because .index was
> included in the 3.0 Sequence ABC (abstract base class) and tuple was
> included as a sequence, so .... something had to give. The result was
> tuple getting the full suite of immutable sequence methods. And then
> there was no good reason to not backport ;-).
The last time I needed index on a tuple was in fact for partially non-
homogenous data. I forget why, but I needed to treat arguments after
a certain value different from the front arguments. So I wanted to do
something like:
def something(*args):
firstspecial = args.index(0)
'Cept I couldn't.
Carl Banks
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