On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:13:41PM -0500, Evan Simpson wrote: > The explanation isn't that hard, at least for a user with a basic > knowledge of data structures --
they have a basic knowledge of data structures but they can't be taught to write a python script in about the same amount of time? > you usually use key: with a dictionary, > and item: with a sequence. The exception is when you have an integer > key in a dictionary. That exception does smell a bit funny... having to say here/some_dict/item:0 just feels odd. But I can't remember ever using integers as dictionary keys so it's probably not worth fussing over. :-) > I hope that the list above makes the consistency clearer. actually it does help a bit, thanks. hmm. It's not horrible :-) I'm just still on the fence about whether we really need it. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's BUTCHER BROMO-BOTTLE CAP! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com) _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
