[pydotorg-www] modifying https://wiki.python.org/moin/MovingToPythonFromOtherLanguages

[Lew Kurtz]

I wanted to create an account to discuss changes to the indexes and slices example, because basically, the right and left sides of that example seem only half related; the way it is written, could be convinced that the first element in that list on the left consists of the list [0,1,2,3,4,5]  I think would be clear if it was something like this
(sorry the spacing is not good)

Index from rear      -6   -5   -4   -3  -2  -1
index from front       0    1    2    3   4   5
                             +—+—+—+—+—+—+
my_list =               | a  | b |  c | d  | e  |  f  |
                             +—+—+—+—+—+—+
Slice from front     :     1   2    3   4    5    :
Slice from rear     :     -5  -4  -3  -2   -1   :

(notice also only 4 colons instead of 8)

Then on the right side

my_list=[a,b,c,d,e,f]
len(my_list)==6
my_list[0]==a
etc.

This way, the whole example is connected.

That’s my 2 cents. If you think I’m off in left field, then I don’t need access to modify the page. Or please feel free to make these modifications if that’s easier.

Thanks,
Lew