Why are index() and count() only for mutable sequences?

[Bob Alexander]

There is no modification of the sequence performed by these functions -- it seems as though they could be available for all sequences. It would certainly be useful for tuples as well as lists (strings, too, for that matter, even though we have the more general string.find()).

-- Bob
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