At 12:17 AM 7/26/2007, Alan Gauld wrote: >"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > >>I could send you a link but I'd just google 'python list slicing' to > >>find it, so I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. > > > > I don't find Google of help with this. Could someone supply a link? > >Not sure why it didn't help you Dick, but it led me to: > >http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html > >Which is admittedly sparing in its explanation but does at >least describe the three values involved and their defaults. > >The tutorial also threw up this: > >http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html > >Which describes basic slicing (using only 2 indices) of strings >and also has a link to the previous reference page. > >Finally I tried googling for 'python slicing' and got this as my first >hit: > >http://docs.python.org/ref/slicings.html > >Which is the language lawyers version!
Alan, I don't see an explanation of [::-1] anywhere in those 3 links. There needs to be a clear description and better examples somewhere in the docs, IMO. My thanks to Luke and Wesley. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
