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While this may be theoretically preferable, I believe that in practice changing this would be a major pain for very little gain. I don't recall ever finding a bug related to this feature, and I believe it's occasionally useful. Here's something that would be much more cumbersome with your proposed change: suppose I have a string of unknown length and I want to get the first three characters, or less if it's not that long. Today I can write s[:3]. With your proposal I would have to write s[:min(3, len(s))]. --Guido On 4/19/07, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is one thing I'd like to see changed in a future python. I always > found it surprising, that > >>> x = [1,2,3,4,5] > >>> x[1:10] > [2, 3, 4, 5] > > is not an error. This is perhaps the only case (but a fundamental one!) > where an error is silently ignored. > > I really can't think of a good justification for it. If I really meant > x[1:] > I would have said so. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
