negative indices for sequence types

[Martin v. Löwis]

danbmil99 at yahoo.com (dan) writes:

> This fact is *deeply* buried in the docs, and is not at all intuitive.

I find it highly intuitive and very convenient.

> If you want this behavior, how hard is it to say a = b[x %
> len(b)] ??

*This* I would call un-intuitive. It is also much slower.

To get the last element, you currently write b[-1]. If that was not
available, you would have to write b[len(b)-1], which is still
significantly slower. Also, you might not have a variable name, so try
rewriting foo()[-1].

Regards,
Martin