Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > It didn't take me long to get used to thinking in zero-based indexes, > but years later, I still find it hard to *talk* in zero-based indexes. > It's bad enough saying that the first element in a list in the zeroth > element, but that the second element is the first makes my head > explode...
Don't say those things, then. In addition to making your head explode, they're not true. There is no “zeroth element” in a sequence. The first element in a sequence is addressed by index 0. The second element in a sequence is addressed by index 1. The last element in a sequence is addressed by index -1. In other words, it's never true (in Python) that index N addresses the Nth element of the sequence; so that's not a useful equivalence to maintain. Hope that helps. -- \ “The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days | `\ later you're hungry again.” —George Miller | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
