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  • "Index" as a technical term in Python

    From Stefan Ram@21:1/5 to Dennis Lee Bieber on Thu Jul 14 17:42:49 2022
    Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:
    Dicts don't have "indexes", they have "keys" (index implies a
    positional look-up: first, second, ..., tenth item).

    Dictionaries are mappings, and mappings

    |represent finite sets of objects indexed by arbitrary index sets.
    PLR 3.9.0a3

    Dictionaries

    |represent finite sets of objects indexed by nearly arbitrary values.
    PLR 3.9.0a3

    "6.16 Operator precedence" calls what is between brackets an "index".

    |x[index], x[index:index]
    PLR 3.9.0a3.

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