Why is this not working ? bla = 'hondenriem' print bla[0:4] # correct ! (= hond) print bla[3:2] # nothing ! (= en) print bla[6:3] # nothing ! (= riem)
Why don't bla[3:2] and bla[6:3] won't work ? I use this version: Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html#strings word = 'HelpA' >>> word[4] 'A' >>> word[0:2] 'He' >>> word[2:4] 'lp' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list