On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:05:41 +0100, "K Viltersten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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?! > >Elaboration: >I wonder why such an unintuitive effect has >been implemented. I'm sure it's for a very >good reason not clear to me due to my >ignorance. Alternatively - my expectations >are not so intuitive as i think. :) I think it should say del a[1:2] then it works -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
