New submission from Eric Fulton:
I believe the diagram showing how slices works from
https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/introduction.html is incorrect. There
should be no 6.
word = 'Python'
word[6]
IndexError: string index out of range
Original:
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| P | y | t | h | o | n |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1
What it should be:
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| P | y | t | h | o | n |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
0 1 2 3 4 5
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1
--
One way to remember how slices work is to think of the indices as pointing
between characters, with the left edge of the first character numbered 0. Then
the right edge of the last character of a string of n characters has index n,
for example:
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| P | y | t | h | o | n |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1
--
assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 228464
nosy: Eric.Fulton, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Diagram issue
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