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[holger krekel]

Gold Fish wrote:
> Charl P. Botha wrote:
> 
> > In article <3cfa6ed8_1 at news.iprimus.com.au>, Gold Fish wrote:
> >> Assume we got 2 list
> >> list 1 = ['ABC','CDG','DAV','FE','FECA','FEAFA','FEA']
> >> list 2 = []
> >> how can we copy element from list 1 to list 2 say i just want to copy the
> >> 3 element 'CDG','DAV','FE' to list2 only.
> > 
> > list1 = ['ABC','CDG','DAV','FE','FECA','FEAFA','FEA']
> > list2 = list1[1:4]
> > 
> > Is that what you meant?
> > 
> No i mean if i got from list1 i wanna take 3 elements in any position to 
> list2 but i don't know how many item in that list.

if you have a starting index 'i' then you can do

  list1[i:i+3]  

which returns you at most 3 elements, starting from position 'i'.

If this is still not what you want, then please give 
two or three examples of what you want to achieve.

    holger