[Python-Dev] unscriptable?

Sat Apr 19 01:03:09 CEST 2008

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> Consider this error:
> >>> 3["something"]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: 'int' object is unsubscriptable
>> "unscriptable" seems rather ambiguous. How about "[object] cannot be indexed"?
Titus just noticed that I confused "unscriptable" with
"unsubscriptable." :P Still, though, unsubscriptable seems to be a
Python invented word.
What does (un)subscriptable even mean?
>> --
> Cheers,
> Benjamin Peterson
>
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Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson