Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> writes: > Among other things, it has the nice property that: > len(some_list[n:m]) == m-n
And also that it is intuitive how to represent an empty slice (foo[n:n]). When traversing over sublists, it's also a useful property that foo[a:b] + foo[b:c] == foo. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list