On 11/08/2011 02:24, Jim wrote:
Greetings, folks,
I am using python 2.7.2. Here is something I got:
a = 'popular'
i = a.find('o')
j = a.find('a')
a[i:j]
'opul'
Well, I expected a[i:j] to be 'opula', and can't think of any reason
why this is not happening. So, can anybody help me out about this?
> Thank you very much.
Python uses half-open ranges, which means that the start position is
inclusive and the end position is exclusive.
This means that a[i:j] returns the string starting at position i and
extending upto, but excluding, position j.
The reason that Python uses half-open ranges is that experience (with
the language Mesa) has shown that it results in fewer programming
errors that the alternatives.
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