On Nov 15, 6:50 pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > Anyone remember or know why Python slices function like half-open > intervals? I find it incredibly convenient myself, but an acquaintance > familiar with other programming languages thinks it's bizarre and I'm > wondering how it happened. > -- > Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ > > [on old computer technologies and programmers] "Fancy tail fins on a > brand new '59 Cadillac didn't mean throwing out a whole generation of > mechanics who started with model As." --Andrew Dalke
Good ol' zero based indexing. It makes a lot more sense that range(len (my_list)) returns 'n' values which are valid indicies, otherwise they'd be a lot of IndexError's being raised. Besides, when you really want the full range (a corner case), it's a lot easier to do a +1, than to force people to write -1 for the vast majority of cases. Jon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
