James Carroll wrote:
If you have five elements, numbered 0,1,2,3,4 and you ask for the
elements starting with the first one, and so on for the length you
would have [0:length]. So [0:5] gives you elemets 0,1,2,3,4. Think
of the weirdess if you had to ask for [0:length-1] to get length
elements...
[...]
It is a little weired that slicing does [index: count] instead of
[index:index] or [count:count] I agree, but python really does just
flow wonderfully once you see how clean code is that's written [index:
count].
I think you got confused part way through that. Python's
slices are *not* index:count, but are index:index. It's
just that for the example you gave, starting at 0, they
happen to amount to the same thing...
-Peter
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