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

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
><seberino at spawar.navy.mil>
>> Many people I know ask why Python does slicing the way it does.....
>Python's way has some useful properties:
>
>* s == s[:i] + s[i:]
>
>* len(s[i:j]) == j-i     # if s is long enough

The latter being particularly helpful when i = 0 -- the first n
elements are s[:n] . (Similarly elegantly, although of no
practical significance, s == s[0:len(s)] .)

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