Newbie questions on Python

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Tue Apr 16 11:20:44 EDT 2013


Hi all,
i'm programming in python for the first time (usually i use C as programming language). I don't understand these results:

>>> a=[1,2,3,4,5]
>>> a[:-1]
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> a[::-1]
[5, 4, 3, 2, 1]
>>> a[2::-1]
[3, 2, 1]

what does a[2::-1] means?
Thanks



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