list Integer indexing dies??

[Ishwor]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:33:16 -0300, Batista, Facundo
<FBatista at unifon.com.ar> wrote:
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> [Ishwor] 
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> #- > What should 035[0] cough up? Be carefull it should 
> #- 
> #- >>>035[0] 
> #- 3 # my own opinion. 
why 3? The reason we get 3 and not 0 here is the *fact* that Python
knows that its an octal rep. and not decimal ;-)
035[2] could return error here. Same for hex. No idea for binary. ~;-(

> #- 
> #- > cough up the same as 29[0]. 
> #- 
> #- >>>29[0] 
> #- 2 #again my own opinion 
since it's decimal its fine to get 2 which is at offset 0. 

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cheers,
Ishwor Gurung