list vs tuple

[deadmeat]

> There is a dilemma here nobody has solved.

Chicken / egg problem...

> You could help by writing a "Python for Pascalers" intro blurb.

Um.. er.. I think I left um.. something on. Bye.   <runs away>

> occur to you to question whether list[i] is constant-time or takes time
> proportional to i

Well, you've lost me there.  I would have thought a paragraph or two
introducing the concept of arrays and how to reference each element would
pretty much take care of it..

> the-only-objective-truth-is-that-all-other-languages-suck<wink>-ly

Only Perl sux :)