"lists" <li...@justuber.com> wrote
Assuming that mytext is "test", I've found that mytext[-1:-4:-1]
doesn't work (as I expected it to) but that mytext[::-1] does.
While that's fine, I just wondered why mytext[-1:-4:-1] doesn't
work?
It does work.
But remember that slices give you the first item to one less
than the second index, so for a 4 letter word you need an
index of of -5...
"test"[-1:-4:-1]
'tse'
"test"[-1:-5:-1]
'tset'
HTH,
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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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