Eric Price wrote: > Hello; > I'm studying some code examples from the python cookbook site. I came > across this: > > def colsplit(l, cols): > rows = len(l) / cols > if len(l) % cols: > rows += 1 > m = [] > for i in range(rows): > m.append(l[i::rows]) > return m > > What I'd like to know is what is the double colon? What does it do? > m.append(l[i::rows]) > > Thanks, > Eric
http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html#SECTION005140000000000000000 http://docs.python.org/ref/slicings.html Probably most helpful to you is: http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/proposals/slice_syntax.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
