Can't get around "IndexError: list index out of range"

[MonkeeSage]

On Oct 7, 7:14 pm, Duncan Smith <buzz... at urubu.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> No.  The above constructs a list of keys and searches the list for the
> key, O(n).  "key in somedict" is a lookup, O(1).

My point wasn't in regard to implementation details, but in regard to
convenience methods. Obviously the sugary dict methods are tweaked for
the best performance (one would hope!), as would be sugary sequence
methods were they to be added. What I was wondering is why
dict.has_key() and get() are there but not list.has_index() and get().

Regards,
Jordan