On Apr 20, 1:01 pm, Dan M <catd... at gmail.com> wrote: > > As a newbie Pythoner, I understand [] -1] but would some tell me how > > '::' does its magic? > > > Uncle Ben > > The -1 is the "stride" or "step" argument. It's described athttp://docs.python.org/release/2.3.5/whatsnew/section-slices.html > > Dan Very helpful! Ben