slicing a list but in downward fashion

Lee Sander lesande at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 19:37:24 EDT 2008


hi,
i have a list and i can get elements form it via slicing
L[start:stop]
but sometimes the start is > stop i.e. I want to go in the opposite
direction,eg
L[10:2],

mattab lets you do L(10:-1:2) to achive this, is there a way to do
this in python?
thanks
L



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