[issue28882] Slice confusing with negative stop and strides and the 0th element.

Martin Panter added the comment: See also Issue 11842 about the behaviour of slice.indices() in this situation, and Issue 1446619 about fixing the documentation for reverse slices regarding positive out-of-range indexes. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue28882] Slice confusing with negative stop and strides and the 0th element.

Martin Panter added the comment: I think Steven’s main complaint is that it is hard to make a reversed slice extend to the start of the original sequence, unless you omit (or use None as) the endpoint: >>> "01234567"[4:0:-1] # Includes index [4], stops before reaching index [0] '4321' >>> "01

[issue28882] Slice confusing with negative stop and strides and the 0th element.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Steven, your initial 'sentence' is missing something needed to make it a proper English sentence, and I cannot exactly guess what you meant. But your later confusion is clear enough. This tracker is for patching the Python docs and CPython code. I believe th