On Mar 19, 6:37 pm, Lee Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > i have a list and i can get elements form it via slicing > L[start:stop] > but sometimes the start is > stop i.e. I want to go in the opposite > direction,eg > L[10:2], > > mattab lets you do L(10:-1:2) to achive this, is there a way to do > this in python?
>>> a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15] >>> a[3:10:2] [4, 6, 8, 10] >>> a[10:3:-2] [11, 9, 7, 5] > thanks > L -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
