Thanks to all who pointed my wrong understanding of how string slices are defined. Bye, Ron.
________________________________ From: Barak, Ron [mailto:ron.ba...@lsi.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 15:35 To: python-list@python.org Subject: String slices work only for first string character ? Hi, Can any one explain why the following string slice works only for the first character, but not for any other ? $ cat /tmp/tmp.py #!/usr/bin/env python data = 'F0023209006-0101' print data print "|"+data[0:1]+"|" print "|"+data[1:1]+"|" print "|"+data[2:1]+"|" $ python `cygpath -w /tmp/tmp.py` F0023209006-0101 |F| || || $ Thanks, Ron.
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