tuple.index()

[Roy Smith]

In article <4um6tgF18l1srU1 at mid.individual.net>,
 greg <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Roy Smith wrote:
> 
> > The struct does lookup by name, the tuple is inherently index based.
> 
> I was trying to help people understand the distinction
> we're talking about by showing an example of the same
> distinction in another language where it's much clearer.
> 
> There are a great many ways in which C structs are
> different from Python tuples, and C arrays are different
> from Python lists. But they're not the aspects I'm
> drawing an analogy between.
> 
> --
> Greg

Well, yeah, but it's kind of like saying "a tangerine and an orange are 
very different things because one of them is like an apple and the other 
one is like a pear" :-)