On 2007-04-24, Michael Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2007, at 1:39 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> I suspect that if you give this explanation to someone and explain >> that there is also a step parameter, chances are he will answer >> correctly if you ask him, what he thinks the following will result >> in: >> >> >> "This is an example line"[12:19:2] >> >> >> >> If you ask him what the following will result in: >> >> "This is an example line"[19:12:-1] >> >> Chances are he will give the wrong answer. > > To be honest, bro -- I'd expect him to have enough intelligence to > experiment for a second and figure it out. This isn't rocket science > -- you can plainly see what's happening -- so learn it and move on.
I don't think that the possibility to experiment and see for oneself is a good reason to keep a possible confusing explanation in a tutorial. > Or better yet, quietly submit a patch... Why should I? If the reactions would have been one of agreement that this is confusing and that the explanation should be changed, I would have considered submitting a patch. But most people that reacted seem to defend the current text in some way or another. So if most people seem to feel there is no need for a change why should I then submit a patch? -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
