Javier Bezos wrote: > 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".
Incidentally, the Python Tutorial tells us exactly the same... Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list