georg brandl cxwopmagmxnet steven schrieb sat 19 apr 2008 221319 1000 nick coghlan wrote indexable subtly different subscriptable former stronger connotations numeric indices sequencelike behaviour dispute indices arent necessarily numeric think az file dont believe correct connotations indexable numeric sequencelike think index cards normal language use perhaps im native speaker python world nick right think __index__ special method adapts object sequence index return integer maths background would expect subscripts almost always numeric eg xsubscripti means ith x value natural number maths background isnt always directly transferable computer languages think 1 2 0 terms even worse interesting point special methods called __getitem__ et al smartly evading problem int object items sounds equally strange though 0 keeping unsubscriptable 1 changing unidexable 1 keeping current misspelling currently misspelling georg thus spake lord thou shalt indent four spaces less four shall number spaces thou shalt indent number thy indenting shall four eight shalt thou indent either indent thou two excepting thou proceed four tabs right _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 222314 0200 pythondev unscriptable