On 9/25/2010 4:22 AM, Yingjie Lan wrote:
Hi,
I noticed that in python3k, multiplying a sequence by a negative
integer is the same as multiplying it by 0, and the result is an
empty sequence.
This is explicitly documented: "Values of n less than 0 are treated as 0
(which yields an empty sequence of the same type as s).) I would have
made this raise a ValueError, but someone must have had a use case for
getting an empty sequence.
It seems to me that there is a more meaningful symantics.
Simply put, a sequence multiplied by -1 can give a reversed
sequence.
There is already a builtin reversed() function whose output can be
multiplied.
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