R. David Murray added the comment:
Thanks for the report, but this is working as designed, and is a fundamental
part of the design of slices.
That said, I have no idea what you are referring to by saying it is
inconsistent, and what is "upper" and "lower" referring to?
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nosy: +r.dav
New submission from Elazar Gershuni:
slice behavior is not consistent for negative lower or upper arguments, which
could be surprising:
>>> 'hello'[:-2]
'hel'
>>> 'hello'[:-1]
'hell'
>>> 'hello'[:-0]
''
this is obvious when written as literal, but not so obvious when using
variables in expres
