"Jacob Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje >> things which compesate that (another annoying point >> of Python are slices -- mine are always off by 1).
>About slices: Thank you, but I knew the motivations for this odd behaviour, which can be found as well in, for example, MetaFont. However, I disagree. > satisfy some handy properties, the first of which being: > l[:n] + l[n:] = l I don't think l[:5] + l[5:] = l is a handy property and to me is clearly counterintuitive. Further, I don't understand why l[a:b] has a behaviour which does't depend on its own logic but on that of certain constructs containing slices but which aren't the slices themselves. If you have to add or substract 1 in an expression containing slices (or contained in a slice), this belongs to the logic of the expression, not to the slices syntax. MetaFont explains this by saying that the index doesn't refer to a character but to a position between characters, which when traslated to Python would mean: s t r i n g ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 so that [1:2] is "t". Javier ___________________________________________________________ Javier Bezos | TeX y tipografía jbezos at wanadoo dot es | http://perso.wanadoo.es/jbezos ............................|............................... CervanTeX (Spanish TUG) | http://www.cervantex.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
