At 08:31 PM 1/11/2006, Steve Haley wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I need to do something very simple but I'm having trouble finding
>the way to do it - at least easily. I have created a tuple and now
>need to find the position of individual members of that
>tuple. Specifically, the tuple is something like: words = ("you",
>"me", "us", "we", "and", "so", "forth") and I need to be able to
>name a member, for example, "us" and find what the position (index)
>of that word is in the tuple.
>
>I would have thought there would be a simple built in function for
>that but I just went through the built in functions in the Python
>Library Reference and I didn't find anything. I could probably
>figure out how to write a while loop or something to do a sequential
>search until I found the right member but I really believe there
>must be an easier way and I'm just not seeing it. You can probably
>tell I'm just learning Python so any help would be appreciated.
Unfortunately there is no list method find. Sigh. Here's how I'd do it:
# create a dictionary with each word as key and ordinal as value
words = dict([(n,m) for m,n in enumerate(("you", "me", "us", "we",
"and", "so", "forth"))])
words["me"] # returns 1
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