a possibly foolish question about slices

[John La Rooy]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:50:09 GMT
Andrew Koenig <ark at research.att.com> wrote:

> Suppose x is a string or list, and I want to refer to
> a subsequence of x with length n starting at position p.
> under the assumption that this subsequence is entirely
> 
> To do so, I can use x[p:p+n] in all circumstances but one,
> namely when p < 0 and p == -n.  Is there a similarly concise
> expression that works even in this special case?
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark

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John