[Python-Dev] Ranges

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Paul Prescod wrote:
> That's not what I mean. Ignore the range. My point is, if list
> construction and truncation are going to be parallel, they should be
> really parallel.
> 
> [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10][0:5:2]==[0:5:2]

Did you think they were different?

I thought they *were* parallel.  I would expect:

    >>> range(0, 5, 2)
    [0, 2, 4]

    >>> [0:5:2]
    [0, 2, 4]

    >>> [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10][0:5:2]
    [0, 2, 4]

    >>> range(1000)[0:5:2]
    [0, 2, 4]

Right?

Am i misunderstanding how [x:y:z] should work?


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