>> I'm reading the docs and at 5.2 the del >> statement is discussed. At first, i thought >> i've found a typo but as i tried that >> myself, it turns it actually does work so. >> >> a = ["alpha", "beta", "gamma"] >> del a[2:2] >> a >> >> Now, i expected the result to be that the >> "beta" element has been removed. Obviously, >> Python thinks otherwise. Why?! > > Remember that slices are specified as half-open > intervals. So a[m:n] includes m-n elements, > those indexed from m to n-1.
Got it. Thanks! -- Regards Konrad Viltersten -------------------------------- sleep - a substitute for coffee for the poor ambition - lack of sense to be lazy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
