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		TheCoelacanth on Dec 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Python 3 Exists That isn't an index into a string. It is an opaque indicator of position in a string. That opaque indicator of position happens to be implemented as an index into the underlying array, but it is not itself an index.

Veedrac on Dec 19, 2015 [–]

That sounds like an index to me, and the operation surely indexing.

I mean, if one has a hashmap

    hash = {"foo": 1, "bar": 2}

we say hash["foo"] is an indexing operation, and "foo" is an index. Seems the same to me.

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