apologies, an account name would be helpful, mine is LewKurtz > On May 23, 2018, at 7:50 PM, Lew Kurtz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I wanted to create an account to discuss changes to the indexes and slices > example, because basically, the right and left sides of that example seem > only half related; the way it is written, could be convinced that the first > element in that list on the left consists of the list [0,1,2,3,4,5] I think > would be clear if it was something like this > (sorry the spacing is not good) > > Index from rear -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 > index from front 0 1 2 3 4 5 > +—+—+—+—+—+—+ > my_list = | a | b | c | d | e | f | > +—+—+—+—+—+—+ > Slice from front : 1 2 3 4 5 : > Slice from rear : -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 : > > (notice also only 4 colons instead of 8) > > Then on the right side > > my_list=[a,b,c,d,e,f] > len(my_list)==6 > my_list[0]==a > etc. > > This way, the whole example is connected. > > That’s my 2 cents. If you think I’m off in left field, then I don’t need > access to modify the page. Or please feel free to make these modifications if > that’s easier. > > Thanks, > Lew >
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