[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 279 revisited (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas@python.ca
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:37:29 -0700

Greg Ewing wrote:

There doesn't seem to be any single English word that captures all of what we mean without ambiguity.

How about "indices"? You use a key to get things out of dictionaries. You use an index to get things out of sequences. "indices" is the pural of index.

Neil