[Python-Dev] List insert at index that is well out of range - behaves like append

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> I assume it's based on the concepts of slicing.  From the docs
> "s.insert(i, x) - inserts x into s at the index given by i (same as s[i:i]
> = [x])".


Ah, right. It matches thigs like s[100:] which is the empty string if s is
shorter than 100.


> Although shouldn't that read s[i:i+1] = [x] ?
>

Should've stopped while you were ahead. :-)

'Nuff said.

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