On May 17, 2005, at 22:00, Smith, Jeff wrote:

> Is there a more Pythonic way to get the Perl equivalent of
>     $#var
> other than
>     len(var) - 1

     AFAIK, len(var) - 1 is the only way. Note, however, that the  
last element of a list (or of any ordered sequence) can be obtained  
with the shortcut var[-1].

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"Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting  
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