String negative indices?

[Erik Max Francis]

drtimhill at comcast.net wrote:

> Is there some magic I'm missing here? Wouldn't it actually be better for Python to treat 0 as a 
> special case here, so that x[-2:0] and x[-2:] generated the same result?

No, since x[-2:0:-1] already has meaning and it isn't what you want.


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