On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:50 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is this not working ? > > bla = 'hondenriem' > print bla[0:4] # correct ! (= hond) > print bla[3:2] # nothing ! (= en)
Why do you think the right answer is 'en'? bla[3:2] is asking for the slice starting at position 3, ending before position 2, reading left to right. If you were expecting the slice to read backwards from position 3 to position 2, you'd need to supply a third argument to the slice: >>> print bla[3:2:-1] d If you were expecting the second argument in the slice notation to be the length of the substring, well, that's just wrong. Python slices don't work that way. Take a look at the tutorial, particularly the bit on slice notation, here: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html#strings -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
