From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:00:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Tuples now have both count() and index().
X-Git-Tag: v2.6b3~251
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=340383ce70c17cf6a1d4c9c87320c7dc979b205f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Tuples now have both count() and index().
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index cf9682b86c8d..f895f80fe55c 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -1441,13 +1441,15 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language.
   it will be returned if *iterator* has been exhausted; otherwise,
   the :exc:`StopIteration` exception will be raised.  (:issue:`2719`)
 
-* Tuples now have an :meth:`index` method matching the list type's
-  :meth:`index` method::
+* Tuples now have :meth:`index` and :meth:`count` methods matching the
+  list type's :meth:`index` and :meth:`count` methods::
 
     >>> t = (0,1,2,3,4)
     >>> t.index(3)
     3
 
+  (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger)
+
 * The built-in types now have improved support for extended slicing syntax,
   where various combinations of ``(start, stop, step)`` are supplied.
   Previously, the support was partial and certain corner cases wouldn't work.