On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:06 PM, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Zachary Ware > <zachary.ware+py...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] >> >> Have I clarified or muddied it for you? :) > > Clarified, I believe, if my following statements are correct: I did > not consider that the behavior was symmetric with positive indices. > So, index 0 is the "center" relative to which positive and negative > indices create identical behaviors. > Hmm. There is a flaw in my observed "symmetry" in that str[0:3] and str[-3:0] do not behave the same as the latter returns an empty string.
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