Questions regarding design decisions in listobject.c

Remco Gerlich scarblac-spamtrap at pino.selwerd.nl
Mon Jun 5 07:48:41 EDT 2000


Courageous wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Well, yeah, but [0:3] as "element zero through three, inclusive"
> is about as intuitive as you can get.

When I see s[:3], my intuition says it takes 3 elements, not 4...


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