> ;-) gotcha. But shouldn't this be valid too?? > >>> 123232[0]
No, it shouldn't be valid. It makes the implicit assumption that you want the base 10 digit, which isn't really a good assumption to make in the world of computers. Programmers are just as likely to want hexadecimal, and arguments could be made for octal or binary too. Basically, there's no intuitive meaning for trying to slice an integer. Also, it seems like it would be very rare that anybody would want to do this. Most of those cases fall into one of two categories- (1) trying to display digits of a number in a human readable way, and (2) trying to do some kind of math. (1) is better handled by explicitly converting it to a string first, and (2) is likely better handled using logarithms. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
