[Python-Dev] unscriptable?

[Steve Holden]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
[...]>
> To suggest yet another colour for the bikeshed, maybe we should ditch 
> both unindexable and unsubscriptable and go with "'int' is not a 
> sequence or mapping". Any object which supports subscript notation will 
> be one or the other.
> 
All the object needs to to to be "indexable" or "subscriptable" is to 
implement .__index__() or .__getitem__(). While sequences and mappings 
are the only built-in types to do so, this says nothing about 
user-defined types.

Couldn't we find a more obvious and direct error message like

"Illegal use of [] subscripting/indexing"?

one-more-coat-for-the-bikeshed-ly y'rs  - steve
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