list Integer indexing dies??

[Mike Meyer]

Ishwor <ishwor.gurung at gmail.com> writes:

> On 23 Dec 2004 14:28:37 GMT, Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> My experience as a learner here is that there should be some
> automagics & say like "okay you want to do indexing on integers (
> context dependent); i'll give you the index of 0th position in that
> integer" ???

Python doesn't do things automagically. The rules for pythonic
behavior include "Explicit is better than implicit" and "In the face
of ambiguity, refuse the tempation to guess." Both of those are
violated by automatic conversions and the like.

         <mike
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