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

[Björn Lindström]

Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> writes:

> The problem is that the fields in lst are associated
> with a number that is off by one as they are normally
> counted. If I go and ask my colleague which field
> contains some specific data and he answers:
> the 5th, I have to remind my self I want lst[4]
>
> This is often a cause for errors.

It sounds like you should wrap that list in an object more reminding of
the source data, then.

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Björn Lindström <bkhl at stp.ling.uu.se>
Student of computational linguistics, Uppsala University, Sweden