Why Python does *SLICING* the way it does??

[Greg Ewing]

Antoon Pardon wrote:
> 
> This is nonsens. table[i] = j, just associates value j with key i.
> That is the same independend from whether the keys can start from
> 0 or some other value.

Also, everyone, please keep in mind that you always have
the option of using a *dictionary*, in which case your
indices can start wherever you want.

You can't slice them, true, but you can't have
everything. :-)

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg