[Plone-Users] Why Can't I Do This?

[Tommy Grav]

On Dec 14, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Victor Subervi wrote:

> whatever[0:2] will yield THREE characters, so my "by " is correct  
> and "by" will fail every time :))
> Victor

Nope, whatever[0:2] is two characters:

ActivePython 2.5.1.1 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May  1 2007, 17:40:00)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> whatever = "abcde"
 >>> whatever[0:2]
'ab'
 >>>