In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Machin wrote: > On Oct 2, 6:27 am, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is this the correct way to slice the last 4 items from a list? >> >> x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] >> print x[-4:] >> >> It works, but is it Pythonic? > > It's Pythonic. It's also unambiguous, unlike your specification, which > could be interpreted as 'chop off the last 4 items from a list' ...
No, the OP is using "slice" in the technically correct CS sense. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
