Antoon Pardon wrote: > I sometimes think python should have been more explicite here, > using a marker for the start-index and end-index, may '^' and > '$'. So if you wanted the last element you had to write: > > lst[$] > > And for the next to last element: > > lst[$ - 1] > > > This would make accessing list elements counted from the rear > almost just as easy as it is now but wouldn't interfere with > the ask forgiveness programming style.
How would you pass this argument to __getitem__? What would be allowed, only '$-x' or also '$+x' or what else? What type would '$' be? Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
