On 30 Aug 2005 10:07:06 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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? Give it a handy property? E.g., table.as_python_list[-1] Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
