Op 2005-08-30, Terry Reedy schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Really it's x[-1]'s behavior that should go, not find/rfind. > > I complete disagree, x[-1] as an abbreviation of x[len(x)-1] is extremely > useful, especially when 'x' is an expression instead of a name.
I don't think the ability to easily index sequences from the right is in dispute. Just the fact that negative numbers on their own provide this functionality. Because I sometimes find it usefull to have a sequence start and end at arbitrary indexes, I have written a table class. So I can have a table that is indexed from e.g. -4 to +6. So how am I supposed to easily get at that last value? -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
