Nick Coghlan wrote:
> In the example below (printing the first 3 items of a sequence), the fact that
> sorted() produces a new iterable list, while reversed() produces an iterator
> over the original list *should* be an irrelevant implementation detail from
> the
> programmer's point of view.
You have to be aware on some level of whether or not you're using a
list when you use slice notation -- what would you do for iterators
when given a negative step index? Presumably it would have to raise
an exception, where doing so with lists would not...
Steve
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