tuple.index()

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2006-12-14, Nick Maclaren <nmm1 at cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> In article <1166111379.421958.112140 at t46g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> "Glenn Hutchings" <zondo42 at googlemail.com> writes:
>|>
>|> > I remain baffled.  I accept the explanations, but what I am now
>|> > confused by is the reason for the explanations ....
>|> 
>|> Maybe this archive posting, straight from the horse's mouth, will clear
>|> things up once and for all...
>|> 
>|> http://www.python.org/search/hypermail/python-1992/0285.html
>
> Wonderful!  Thanks.  Yes, that does.  It makes perfect sense.
> I did say that I thought it would be a rarely used feature :-)

Though the full rationale no longer applies to strings, which now
have plenty of methods.

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