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[Remco Gerlich]

Will Ware wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Remco Gerlich (scarblac-spamtrap at pino.selwerd.nl) wrote:
> > for i in range(len(thing)):
> >    print thing[-i]
> 
> If thing = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], then this piece of code will print
> 1, 5, 4, 3, 2. The code below has probably the less surprising
> effect of printing 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
> 
> for i in range(len(thing)):
>     print thing[-i-1]

Sigh. All my posts have small errors recently. Here I'm trusting the
behavior of indexing in Python too much (it avoids off by one errors,
right?...)

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Remco Gerlich,  scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
  Murphy's Rules, "A family way":
   Population increases by 5 per cent each week in Universe III (Central
   Texas Computing)... This is possible only if every female is
   constantly pregnant with dodectuplets (a litter of 12).