Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Many people I know ask why Python does slicing the way it does..... >Python's way has some useful properties: > >* s == s[:i] + s[i:] > >* len(s[i:j]) == j-i # if s is long enough
The latter being particularly helpful when i = 0 -- the first n elements are s[:n] . (Similarly elegantly, although of no practical significance, s == s[0:len(s)] .) -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomež se bera eadward ofdun hlęddre heafdes bęce bump bump bump -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
