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 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22553> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
