Slicing beyond list -- bug or featurette?
Pierre Fortin
pfortin at cisco.com
Fri Jul 2 16:38:34 EDT 1999
Just ran into a situation which can be summarized as follows:
list = [ 0,1,2,3,4 ]
list[<0..4>] returns the appropriate item
list[m] where m is >= len(list) expectedly fails
list[2:50] returns [ 2,3,4 ]
list[20:] or list[20:30] returns []
Can I count on this, or should I code try/except for the day it's
fixed? This 'feature' reduces the error situations; but is it
correct/intended?
Curious,
Pierre
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