nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom stephen j turnbull wrote steven writes sat 19 apr 2008 221319 1000 nick coghlan wrote indexable subtly different subscriptable former stronger connotations numeric indices sequencelike behaviour maths background would expect subscripts almost always numeric eg xsubscripti means ith x value natural number dont think get general agreement tend connote numerical indicies indices arrays go handinhand probably due signal processing background believe pep 357s choice __index__ sequence indexing made association reasonably official python terms hand many contexts index general concept subscript typographical convention representing index granted latter explicitly used general term sequence indexing mapping relevant section language reference 1 specifically context python error message int absolutely correct error message set isnt technically wrong either although perhaps quite correct could suggest yet another colour bikeshed maybe ditch unindexable unsubscriptable go int sequence mapping object supports subscript notation one cheers nick 1 httpdocspythonorgdevreferenceexpressionshtmlid7 nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom brisbane australia httpwwwboredomandlazinessorg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 065943 1000 pythondev unscriptable